Symlinks in plugin directory

[qgib]

Author Name: otternase - (otternase -)
Original Redmine Issue: 1116

Redmine category:c++_plugins
Assignee: nobody -

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Problem description:

Environment: qgis 0.9.1 Ubuntu 7.10

after developing a small plugin I put the lib in my home directory and created a symlink in the qgis plugin directory pointing to it. But the plugin was not listed in the Plugin manager (also no error message). Only after copying my plugin libfile into the plugin dir it worked.

The basic problem is this call:
qgspluginmanager.cpp:176: QDir pluginDir(txtPluginDir->text(), sharedLibExtension, QDir::Name | QDir::IgnoreCase, QDir::Files | QDir::NoSymLinks);
(in current version 0.10.0 it's line 198)

Is there any reason for using the filter QDir::NoSymLinks?
I deleted this filter and it works well on my computer. I didn't test this on any other OS, so probably there are issues with Windows or [[MacOS]]?

[qgib]

Author Name: Anne Ghisla (Anne Ghisla)

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Hardlinks do work on QGIS 1.0 preview1 compiled on Debian Lenny (and previous versions), "symlinks" on Windows don't. As on Windows there is no UNIX-like hardlink concept, this can be a problem for Windows plugin developers who need to keep a SVN working copy somewhere else than in QGIS plugin folder. On Linux, simply create an hardlink using ln.

Leave open for more technical comments.

[qgib]

Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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Can this be closed?

[qgib]

Author Name: Paolo Cavallini (@pcav)

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• resolution was configured as worksforme
• status_id was changed from Open to Closed