[QGIS-trac] [Quantum GIS] #1116: Symlinks in plugin directory

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#1116: Symlinks in plugin directory
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   Reporter:  otternase                                   |              Owner:  nobody       
       Type:  enhancement                                 |             Status:  new          
   Priority:  minor: annoyance or enhancement             |          Milestone:  Version 0.9.1
  Component:  Plugins                                     |            Version:  HEAD         
   Keywords:  qgspluginmanager.cpp Pluginmanager Symlink  |   Platform_version:               
   Platform:  Linux                                       |           Must_fix:  No           
Status_info:  0                                           |  
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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?

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/1116>
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