Fwd: Bug 214984 - an apology

[Myriam Schweingruber]

Hi all,

Got this form a user in PM. He was trolling in a bug report, then
apologized and dived into debugging the problem :)

The related bug report is this one: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=214984


Regards, Myriam

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Emmanuel Benoît <ebenoit at ebenoit.info>
Date: 2009/11/18
Subject: Re: Bug 214984 - an apology
To: Myriam Schweingruber <myriam at kde.org>


On Wednesday 18 November 2009 09:46:06 you wrote:
> In your case it was just a combination of several factors that made it
> impossible for us to do something about, mainly the fact that we still
> depend on Qt 4.4 We plan to do the jump once KDE 4 depends on it and
> the major distributions ship it. It will then also allow us to take
> advantage of several of the new features available in this new Qt
> version.

I kept on looking into it because it intrigued, not to mention annoyed, me.
I'm starting to think the problem comes from qtscriptgenerator, but I'm not
certain yet.

In any case, there used to be a warning in the Amarok code regarding importing
qt.whatever before qt.core.

I'm attaching two (very short) patches to this email.

 * Patch 1 simply prevents qt.whatever from being loaded before qt.core (which
might break some scripts).

 * Patch 2 loads qt.core automatically if qt.whatever is loaded before
qt.core; it doesn't break anything but sometimes a program that tries to be
clever is in fact getting in the way.

Both patches restore the warning message.

To be honest, I'm not sure the patches are really useful; it'd be better if
the original bug was just gone. They do prevent SIGSEGV's tho, which is good,
I suppose.

Regards,

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