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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Is there a way to stop crashing KPart::ComponentFactory::createInstanceFromQuery() when...
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-08 21:58:49
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On Friday 08 March 2002 01:21 pm, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 08 March 2002 19:26, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Friday 08 March 2002 05:00 am, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Friday 08 March 2002 13:50, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > > I'm not sure what we can do about that...
> > >
> > > Doing stricter version control, e.g. renaming lib/kde3/ to lib/kde3.1/
> > > so that kde3.0 apps don't dlopen kde3.1 modules.
> >
> > Why is it a problem when a kde3.0 app opens a kde 3.1 module?
>
> Well, the kde-3.1 module might want to call a kdelibs method that isn't
> available in kdelibs-3.0. The question is whether the linker will find e.g.
> kdecore-3.1 and load it for that module (err, duplicate symbols??), or
> whether it will think that it has already loaded kdecore for the app, in
> which case the module won't find the symbol it needs. In both cases I don't
> see how it could work.

When you have 3.1 modules I assume you will also have 3.1 libs, so your 3.0 
apps wil be linked against 3.1 libs. Loading a 3.1 module should not cause 
problems then.

Cheers,
Waldo
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