[Qgis-developer] Adding plugins to master

Marco Bernasocchi marco at bernawebdesign.ch
Mon Apr 16 03:45:59 EDT 2012


Marco Bernasocchi (mobile)
http://opengis.ch
On Apr 16, 2012 9:17 AM, "Marco Lechner - FOSSGIS e.V." <
marco.lechner at fossgis.de> wrote:
>
> how about creating more dependencies to python-libs, ... by adding
> plugins to core? I think this should be taken in focus of this
> discussion. IMHO it's not good to add plugins to core that make it
> necessary to install e.g. mysql with qgis.
Definitely not, which plugin are you talking about?
>
> Marco
>
> Am 15.04.2012 22:55, schrieb Borys Jurgiel:
> >> This confirms what I've seen in the past: if a core plugin is released
via
> >> a user repository channel, and the user installs it, the installed user
> >> plugin takes precedence over the core module of the same package name
(e.g.
> >> fTools user plugin is used instead of fTools core plugin).
> >>
> >> So, it is my understanding that a core plugin shipping with a release
would
> >> not be 'pinned down' to the QGIS release schedule.
> > Yes, exactly. You can release a plugin update this way and it mask the
one
> > bundled with Qgis release. If, some day, the user upgrades qgis and the
> > version of the plugin bundled with master becomes higher that the one
> > available in the repository, QGIS displays a message to encouage user to
> > uninstall the update, that is now outdated.
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