Review Request 116938: Remove defunct plugin-loading code, and deprecate KLibrary

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On March 21, 2014, 3:50 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
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> (Updated March 21, 2014, 3:50 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and David Faure.
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> Repository: kservice
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> Description
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> Remove defunct plugin-loading code, and deprecate KLibrary
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> KLibrary::factory() tried to load kde3-style plugins (not unreasonable
> to drop support for) and kdelibs4-style plugins (which do not work,
> since they depended on Qt support).  It now does nothing.
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> This and the KPluginFactory::findPlugin() method leave KLibrary with no
> purpose, so deprecate it.
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> Improve the KPluginLoader documentation
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> Give KPluginLoader a public static findPlugin method
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> I noticed that several bits of code used KLibrary or KPluginLoader to
> find a plugin, then proceeded to just use QLibrary to resolve functions
> from it.  This method allows that to be done without actually creating a
> KPluginLoader instance that is then only used for its fileName() method.
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> Diffs
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>   src/plugin/kpluginloader.h 8621914890bf704213d33108d01032a7b36b3484 
>   src/plugin/kpluginloader.cpp 53d6bc2aa8d8f91f296943ad8831ff6aaab6b3e6 
>   src/plugin/klibrary.h 78f0701e01b0a24e8895127640ce575e09d93d7c 
>   src/plugin/klibrary.cpp c77ec32dbb1cbd1ccd6342a082012d2c82575fb8 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/116938/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Alex Merry
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