New BinReloc patch

Arend van Beelen jr. arend at auton.nl
Mon Apr 19 18:50:14 BST 2004


On Monday 19 April 2004 17:02, Harri Porten wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Arend van Beelen jr. wrote:
> > Of course I can entire exclude the functions from the API on those
> > platforms. But I fail to see how that's any better than letting the
> > program compile but with without binary relocation support.
>
> A compile error on the developer's or packager's machine is better than a
> runtime error for the user.
But the functions are meant as an addition to current methods to find 
directories. As long as people don't /solely/ depend on these functions 
(which would be very bad as they are documented to possibly return 
QString::null) the user won't get any errors they wouldn't get with the 
developer not using these functions.

> Have you seen QApplication::applicationDirPath() btw?
Yes, but it doesn't provide a real solution. It's only a workaround that 
*sometimes* works, it doesn't work for relative paths or with symlinks.

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