[Qgis-user] Installer update - more repositories needed! ;)

[maning sambale]

Upgrading the plugin installer on mac 10.5, it reports:

"Failed to unzip file to /Users/maning/.qgis/python/plugins
check permissions"

cheers,
maning

On 9/9/08, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
> Hi lists,
> I've just updated the Installer in my repo. There are major changes below.
>
> 1. It's compatible with both 0.x and 1.x QGIS now.
>
> 2. By default, it uses the main repository. User can click the "add 3rd
> party
> repositories" button and after accepting warning message, he gets more
> repositories.
>
> 3. The Installer uses DIFFERENT repositories for QGIS 0.x and 1.x. The
> alternative solution was to mix old and new plugins in one repository and
> determine the min/max qgis version in metadata. I've chosen the former, as
> it's much more reliable and clear I think.
>
> 4. Only repositories compatible with currently used QGIS version are used.
> If
> one repository has two "instances" (containing old-api plugins and new-api
> plugins), always the matching one is choosen by correcting the QSettings. If
> one repository (saved in QSettings) is mismatching and has no
> proper "analog", it's disabled (but automatically enabled after publishing
> the analog). So upgrading from 0.11 to 1.0 will automatically change the
> used
> repository list.
>
> 5. At the moment, our "official" repository is enabled in both QGIS 0.x and
> 1.x, my repository has two instances [1][2], while Barry's, Carson's and
> Paolo's repositories are enabled in QGIS 0.x and disabled in 1.x
> It will be great if every repository would be provided in two instances.
>
> I hope I'm undestandable and Installer's behaviour is clear.
>
> Regards,
> B.
>
> PS. I've renamed menu item and window titles from "QGIS Plugin Installer"
> to "QGIS Python Plugin Installer". It's related to the earlier
> discussion "Python plugins and C++ plugins: using different terms".
>
> [1] my repo with new-api plugins: www.bwj.aster.net.pl/qgis/plugins.xml
> [2] my repo with old-api plugins:
> www.bwj.aster.net.pl/qgis/plugins-oldapi.xml
>
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