[Digikam-devel] crashing with old kipi plugins

[Gilles Caulier]

Yes, Marcel, I also seen this problem on my computer, and i don't find
a way yet to solve this issue.

Victor ?

Gilles

2012/9/13 Marcel Wiesweg <marcel.wiesweg at gmx.de>:
> Hi,
>
> once the beta is out we will get numerous crash reports from the kipi plugin
> loader. The problem is that loading a kipi plugin compiled with old libkipi
> crashes, the plugin is interpreted as XMLGuiClient which it is not.
> Now, I got the crash and thought "we need to add some safety checks,
> dynamic_cast, check ABI version of the plugin". I had a look and the code, and
> Victor has done all that already. It seems the kipi2-constructor is called
> from the kipi1 code, why not, the symbol has the same name.
> Anyway, I dont have a good idea how to fix that. If there is no way, we shall
> know to tell everyone first to remove old kipi plugins.
>
> Marcel
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