[Qgis-developer] Plugin Installer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Borys

Great to hear the new plugin manager is ready! We just need to decide
how we are going to deal with shipping python plugins with QGIS. Some
issues:

 - where do we put it in svn tree
 - where do we install it to
 - assuming we install to a sys dir e.g. under /usr/... , do we plan
to mask out sys plugins if the same plugin is installes in users home
dir
 - assuming yes above, do we give version precedence to newer versions
regardless of location


Probably there are more issues we should also consider. Martin would
be the right person to manage this integration process but I'm not
sure when he will be back in hack mode.

regards

Tim

On 7/20/08, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
> Wednesday 16 of July 2008 23:31:35 Tim Sutton napisał(a):
>> If you referring to the 'new' python plugin installer Borys is working
>> on, it was postponed till 1.0.0 release since he is still working on
>> it.
>
> It's ready to put it to the trunk! I implement some minor changes from time
> to
> time, while it is still "open", but they aren't necessary.
>
> I'm going to implement two more improvements after adding the missing SIP
> bindings:
> - load/reload/unload plugins directly from the Installer
> - replace current table view with a Manager-like list view
>
> but  I think we can add it later (I won't find any time for learning SIP any
> day now), whereas the whole Installer should get a longer testing period
> before 1.0 release. So it's ready for the trunk.
>


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