[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Alister Hood]

Hi Nathan,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Woodrow [mailto:madmanwoo at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, 14 September 2011 10:03 a.m.
> To: Alister Hood
> Cc: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet
connections
> 
> 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.

You mean you can't change the permissions on the plugins folder?  How
primitive :)

> 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.

A shared directory *on a network server*?  Is there a standard way to
point QGIS to it?

> - 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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