[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Martin Dobias]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:12 AM, haubourg
> <regis.haubourg at eau-adour-garonne.fr> wrote:
>> Hi All, a user point of view:
>> Go ahead, but advertise us! Thoses changes sound good.
>> + 1 for Larry's proposal of separating Qsettings versions, since we all
>> spend some time running 1.8 AND master on the same machine and same user ...
>
> What problems are with settings? AFAIK new settings are added and old
> may be left unused but settings meaning is not changed.
>
> It may be a lot of work to copy all servers (W*S, databases) through GUI.

I agree with Radim. We can use the same QSettings - it should have the
benefit of keeping the settings for both versions in sync.

In order to support QGIS 1.x and 2.x plugins simultaneously we just need:
- a new section in QSettings to store which plugins are active in v2.x
- a new directory e.g. ~/.qgis/python/plugins2 to store user-installed
plugins for v2.x
- a new URL for plugin installer to fetch plugins for v2.x
Like this, it should be possible to run either version of QGIS without
getting messages about broken plugins etc.

Martin