debugging QT plugins, was: debugging ofx file import

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Montag, 21. Januar 2019 17:02:56 CET Jack wrote:

> On 1/21/19 10:42 AM, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> > On Sonntag, 20. Januar 2019 01:16:06 CET Jack wrote:
> >> On 2019.01.14 14:37, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> >>> Am 14.01.19 um 20:31 schrieb Jack:
> > [...]
> >> So it finds the new plugin four times while looking for metadata, but
> >> finds the system version twice, and still manages to load the system
> >> version instead of the new version.
> >>
> >> Can anyone tell what I'm doing wrong?
> > Nothing. KMyMoney's plugin loading was broken. I just fixed that in the 5.0 branch. See https://commits.kde.org/kmymoney/f69ee7d76454a7e57fb998057ce16062c17702e4 for details what went wrong.
> 
> Thanks for that.  I had been wondering if it was something built in to 
> QT itself.  I'll test this later today.  It seems like all the work any 
> of us had done with running from an install in or near the build dir 
> really didn't work, always preferring the old (system installed) 
> plugins, except that it did find any new plugins that didn't exist in 
> the system install.  It might be nice as a future enhancement for the 
> app to be able to show exactly which plugins have been loaded, and from 
> where.  (Perhaps as part of the plugin view of the configure KMyMoney 
> display?)

My commit contains code that prints this information to the console ;) It's what I added to see what is going on and I left it in for simplicity and as a feature for debugging plugin loading problems in the future.


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