[Qgis-developer] GRASS provider issue on OS X needs attention

[William Kyngesburye]

I've been debating whether to make a fuss about it, and I think I will.

http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3999

As stated in the bug report, my workaround fix only partially works.  


Even so, it's not really an OS X problem - it's more of a conceptual problem: PROVIDERS AND PLUGINS ARE NOT SHARED LIBRARIES.  It just becomes a problem on OS X because it is enforced by the system dynamic loader.  The solution is not OS X specific, so we don't need to sit around waiting for a Mac developer to fix it. (I'm not a C++ programmer, I just know enough to tinker and cause trouble ;)

Even though I don't use GRASS in QGIS, I'd hate to see a 1.8 release with partially working GRASS support.

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