[Qgis-user] plugin installer with unstable internet connections

[Giuseppe Sucameli]

Hi Alister,

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Alister Hood
<alister.hood at synergine.com> wrote:
> 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.

at QGis startup the plugin manager checks if you have more versions of
the same plugin installed (i.e. one in the program dir and another one in
the home dir), then it loads only the newer one.

Cheers.

> 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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Giuseppe Sucameli