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

[Micha Silver]

Hello Borys:

Today, in a small seminar I was giving using qgis (the first lesson
was to add your new plugin installer) I noticed that on WinXP, a
user with a non-ascii username couldn't install the plugin. The
error showed that the "foreign" characters in the path to .qgis were
not parsed - in the error message the path appeared as "C:\Documents
and Settings\\.qis" which of course is wrong) . On the same
computer, after adding a new user with a simple ascii-only username,
the installer worked fine. Is this something you'd like to address?

Regards,
Micha

>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Borys
Jurgiel
>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 3:34 AM
>To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>Subject: [Qgis-user] Installer update - more repositories needed!
;)
>
>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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