[Qgis-developer] plugins

[Borys Jurgiel]

Wednesday 02 of July 2008 00:11:09 Paolo Cavallini napisał(a):
> I finally did some more testing on plugins. I like very much the new
> installer. One possible improvement: why not letting the user choose
> whether to activate each plugin, without having to go to the plugin
> manager menu? Furthermore,
> I did not succeed installing the following:
> - generate Voronoi polygons, LoadLayer, ManageR (This plugin seems to be
> broken or have unfilled dependencies): it would be good to tell the user
> what to do in these cases (install python-rpy)

Thanks! Sorry I didn't give an account of works on Installer last weeks, but 
I'm working on it nearly every day so it's changing from day to day, as you 
can see if you have it installed. I'll write something more in the next days.

I'm not sure if there's any way for activating plugins directly from the  
Installer, however I'll try to find it when all the major features will be 
done.

> - spatial operations (by tgwong, Official repo): it shows "upgradable"
> but it does not upgrade (yes, I miss shapely). 

This is because the Authors often forget about updating both declarations of 
the version number: in the repository and in the plugin. In this case, the 
plugin has the internal number declared as 0.1 and in the repository it's 
declared as 0.2. So you can install it time after time and the Installer 
still sees version 0.1 installed and 0.2 available.

I'll add a workaround to the Installer for "downgrading" the available version 
from 0.2 to 0.1, as it is done with several plugins already. So you won't see 
this particular upgrade, but at least the Installer will be quiet ;) 

> Moreover, there is a line
> citing a readme file as a plugin (with broken dependencies).

It's because the readme file is outside the plugin directory. The Installer 
reports and lets to remove all such "strange" files. I'll contact the Author 
and ask for correcting it.