[Qgis-developer] Merging of incompatible changes

[Larry Shaffer]

Hi Martin,

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

That makes a lot more sense than having duplicate QSettings files.

> - 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
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