[Qgis-developer] odd calls to classFactory for python plugins

[Martin Dobias]

On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> When not enabled, I saw a message that the classFactory __init__ had
> been called. The print didn't happen immediately, it seems to wait for
> an event (menu item, canvas redraw).
>
> On enabling the plugin from the manager and OK'ing, I get a
> classFactory __init__ and a .initGui as expected.
>
>  Some of us on #irc tracked down plugin loading to a few places, but
> we got a bit lost and it's Friday evening... Anyone else want to
> figure this out? We don't think classFactory should be called for
> non-loaded plugins (even though in this case it must be failing for
> some reason since otherwise the initGui method would run --
> QgsPythonUtilsImpl::startPlugin runs them both in quick succession.

AFAIK this loading on startup is done by plugin installer (after
downloading the list of plugins from repositories). Maybe Borys will
know more about it :)

Martin