Loading Konqueror sidebar plugins using KLibLoader::library()

[Matthias Kretz]

On Tuesday 26 September 2006 10:53, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:07, Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> > I have come across the following problem: my Konqueror sidebar plugin
> > has to export some symbols from its library to be used in its plugins.
>
> So you have a plugin which itself has plugins? Interesting ;)

Well, we've had that all the time with KPartsplugins as well :-)

> globalLibrary() has always been said to be "the right thing to do".

I thought it was the opposite. globalLibrary was to be considered as a 
workaround, no?

> So I wouldn't object to it being used there, as long as you check that it
> still all works - e.g. that the current plugins don't have symbol conflicts
> with the rest of the code [or with each other?]. 

A better fix would be to put the "public" parts of the sidebar plugin into a 
shared lib and let both the sidebar plugin and the the plugin to the sidebar 
plugin link to that lib.

-- 
C'ya
        Matthias
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