[Qgis-developer] Breaking API and merge of threading branch

[Martin Dobias]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:
> Dnia środa, 10 sierpnia 2011 o 11:58:38 Martin Dobias napisał(a):
>
>> - change plugin installer so that it works only with new plugin
>> repository and shows plugins for qgis 2.0
>
> You mean blocking all the 3rd party repositories? Or just the two central
> ones?

I actually meant that the button "add 3rd party repositories" would go
away and the new repository would show up (in new installations). IIRC
this is in line with what we agreed on at hackfest: to encourage
plugin developers to use the new official plugin repository for all
public plugins.

I know we are still missing a simple tool for uploading new versions
of plugins without having to upload them manually - since this was
IMHO the main reason why people preferred to use their own
repositories. But such a tool will not be hard to create - we only
need the plugin repository to provide an API that would authorize the
user and upload the plugin in one step (to avoid parsing HTML pages,
doing authorization etc in several steps).

Martin