[Interest] Qt/Mac and "Application Extensions Only"

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Tuesday December 19 2017 22:15:34 Jake Petroules wrote:

> What about the principle of "don't remove compiler options that you do not understand fully and/or may need"? ;)

I did ask, didn't I? :)

> (and primarily on iOS)

Ahhh, right, that was my hunch: one of those "let's make our Unix desktop OS behave more like a phone OS". And you wonder why I felt like tinkering? :)

You're right that the errors came from linking in dependencies which I obviously didn't rebuild with the option.

> It's slightly unfortunate the way this flag works, because it requires the whole world to declare its status. I wish they'd done it in a slightly more backwards incompatible way and required modules to explicitly state that they are NOT app extension safe instead of the other way around.

I'm not going to speculate beyond "Or maybe the whole exercise wasn't actually that necessary to begin with?" ...

R