[Qgis-developer] Plugin Installer

[Borys Jurgiel]

>  - 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

That is what QGIS does now. It is simple and sufficient for upgrading the 
plugins, as I think. So just replacing the old installer will be big 
advantage with low effort.

>  - assuming yes above, do we give version precedence to newer versions
> regardless of location

I wondered about this. I think it would be nice, but is not necessary if we 
can keep the main repo up to date. Finally, there are only two plugins in the 
sys location and a lot of other things to do for 1.0 ;)

But if you want this functionality, I've wrote a version compare function in 
Python (I haven't found nothing appropriate), so we can use this idea in 
qgspythonutilsimpl.cpp.

> 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.

Unfortunatelly, he told something about two months...

Regards