On Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 03:30:22PM +0100, Sergio Martins wrote: > On 2016-10-12 20:59, Thiago Macieira wrote: > >Hello > > > >We've got a number of issues that got fixed in 5.7 by the change that made > >QFactoryLoader stop unloading plugins (notably, the Network Manager bearer > >plugin). Given that QtDBus in 5.6 is now heavily threaded, a number of new > >issues have cropped up. I've managed to fix some, but reports from Ubuntu > >developers indicate the latest fix only uncovered the next issue. > > Hi, > > > More importantly, this also solves all the QStringLiteral related crashes > we've been seeing.
These would be fixable by going back to QLatin1String. > We need this in 5.6, but it's too big a behaviour change for an LTS release. > We need at least a variable to turn it on/off. > > > Suggestion which me and peppe discussed: > > Make it opt-in in 5.6.3 and write in the ChangeLog that there will be a > behaviour change in 5.6.4. > Make it opt-out in 5.6.4 (bringing it on-par with 5.8). > > This gives the user a pre-warning of 3 months, it can still be turned off > and fixes many crashes. I still consider the approach of not unloading plugins fundamentally wrong. It only deepens the trench between Qt and valid approaches at software architectures. Andre' _______________________________________________ Development mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
