[Development] OS X plugin naming bug

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 14 November 2014 12:43:40 Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
> On Fri, November 14, 2014 9:58 am, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > 2) User applications have plugins of their own
> 
> I don't think this would impact an end user app with its own plugins that
> also uses Qt5 plugins. The application would have been compiled with the
> paths for dlopen to search for its own plugins. And the Qt5 libraries will
> be compiled with their own paths for dlopen to search in. Nothing has
> linked to the Qt plugins, so there's no issue when the Qt plugin file
> names change (as opposed to changing the install_name and filename for a
> dylib, which would be a problem) between Qt releases if this bug is fixed.

I don't understand your answer.

You're saying that nothing has linked to the Qt plugins. Well, of course. By 
definition, a plugin is something you don't link to.

Yet that has nothing to do with either problem I listed. In specific for user 
plugins, if the file name were to change, the application code may fail to find 
it.

So my recommendation is that this feature be opt-in, not opt-out.
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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center