[Qt4-preview-feedback] Buildkey does not contains carbon/cocoa on Mac

[Thiago Macieira]

Trenton Schulz wrote:
>On 2009-03-14 17:12:11 +0100, Axel Jäger <axel.jaeger at basyskom.de> said:
>> Hi,
>> I develop a plugin and over the years I got used to the very
>> conservative Qt plugin loader that only loads a plugin when it is
>> absolutely sure that the plugin will fit into the application testing
>> buildkey, configuration, version or whatever.
>>
>> Now I have two versions of Qt on my mac: One built with carbon, the
>> other one with cocoa and I see that my cocoa application tries to load
>> a carbon plugin and it crashes. I'm wondering wether this should be
>> case given the fact that the one and only reason for having such a
>> mechanism is to prevent this situation.
>
>Ideally, one shouldn't have this problem, but we might have to include
>this information. What does your crash log look like?

I was thinking about this too. The cross-platform Qt API should be 
maintaining ABI compatibility between cocoa and carbon.

However, there is Cocoa-specific API in the QMacCocoa* classes. So yes, I 
think we need to add "cocoa" to the buildkey.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
      Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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