[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Nathan Woodrow]

Having the plugin installer install plugins into C:\Program Files\Quantum
GIS
Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins would require you to run QGIS as
administrator on anything > Windows Vista.

IMO plugins are user data and should go into the user home directory.

I would store the plugins on a shared directory and point everyones install
at that, disabling the installer is also a good idea.

- Nathan

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Alister Hood <alister.hood at synergine.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:49:43 +0300
> > From: Janneke Qgis <janneke.qgis at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet
> >       connections
> > To: Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com>
> > Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> > Message-ID: <4E6F5F77.6070707 at gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
> >
> > Thanks for the quick answer, both Tim and Anita,
> >
> > Started copying the plugins from the following folder:
> > C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\.qgis\python\plugins
> >
> > but got confused as I also found the following two folders:
> >
> > C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\plugins
> > C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins
> >
> > Does anything from these folders also need to be copied?
> >
> > Janneke
>
> Built-in Python plugins are installed in e.g. "C:\Program Files\Quantum
> GIS Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins"
>
> C++ plugins are installed in e.g. "C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\plugins"
>
> The plugin installer only installs Python plugins, and puts them in the
> user's home directory, e.g.
> "C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\.qgis\python\plugins"
>
> If you are installing Python plugins manually, it would make more sense
> to put them in "C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins", instead of having to copy them into
> every user's home directory.  In this case you'd probably want to
> disable the plugin installer, because if at some stage a user updates
> one themselves, and doesn't keep it up to date, they could end up with
> an old plugin version in their home directory masking a newer one in the
> program directory.
> It would actually be nice if the plugin installer could put plugins in
> the program installation folder ("C:\Program Files\Quantum GIS
> Wroclaw\apps\qgis\python\plugins").  I think the only way to achieve
> this is with the --config-path option, but that way everyone also shares
> the same settings.
>
> Alister
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