[Qgis-user] Add 3rd party repos button?

[Peter Cornelissen]

I agree, it took me ages to find the repository.OpenLayers plugin...
Peter

On 12 August 2012 11:30, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would not call that encouraging but rather pressing.
>
> I think that by now we can see that some developers prefer keeping
> their plugins in their
> own repository, perhaps to stress their authorship, to make their web
> sites more visible...  who knows.
> In any case, the availability of some important plugins such as
> openlayers has become much less obvious
> without the "Add 3rd party plugins" button.
> As Carson Farmed said
> "I'd also like to suggest that the 'add 3rd party repos' button should
> simply fetch a list of 3rd party repositories from the QGIS server
> (some sort of list created by an online submission system). That way
> there is no hard-coding of repos by Borys, and it's fair for all
> authors. We can certainly have a few different lists (i.e. well tested
> repos, experimental repos, and untested repos)."
>
> I think that the "Add 3rd party plugins" button (or some other simple
> way of adding these repos to the list) should come back.
>
> Agus
>
> 2012/6/17 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
> > Currently yes.  We are trying to encourage everyone to move their
> > plugins to the official repo.
> >
> > - Nathan
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>
> wrote:
> >> On 17/06/2012 15:12, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Micha,
> >>
> >> This support has been dropped for 1.8 in an effort to better organize
> >> the plugin situation. For 1.8 the only default plugin repo that is
> >> available is the offical repo at plugins.qgis.org.  Sounds like a
> >> harsh/bold move but having all the plugins in one place is a lot
> >> easier to manage and allows for a better user experience.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks, I figured that that was the decision.
> >> So for plugins that still live only on 3rd party repos, I have to
> manually
> >> add the URL? (i.e. Openlayers, Topocolors, the Faunalia plugins etc.)
> >>
> >> - Nathan
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> It seems that in 1.8 the "Add 3rd party repositories" button is gone
> from
> >> Fetch plugins. Or am I missing something?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Micha
> >>
> >> --
> >> Micha Silver
> >> 052-3665918
> >>
> >>
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