[Development] Backporting the "stop unloading plugins" change to 5.6

[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 17 de outubro de 2016 14:46:29 PDT Lars Knoll wrote:
> I have to agree with Thiago. For QFactoryLoader, it doesn't make a lot of
> sense to try to unload the plugins, as we only do that on program exit.
> 
> It would be great to make plugins safe to unload, but we all know that this
> is tricky to get right. In addition, we don't even control all the plugins
> we might be loading (thing about additional image formats of styles
> provided by others), so we have no way of knowing whether we can safely
> unload the plugin.
> 
> So I think it's the right thing to change this in 5.6 and not unload those
> plugins on app exit.

https://codereview.qt-project.org/174911

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