[Qgis-developer] Updating core plugins

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia niedziela, 21 kwietnia 2013 o 23:24:49 Victor Olaya napisał(a):
> Hi all
> 
> Having SEXTANTE as a core plugin in QGIS is really great, but I am
> worried about how that will affect users when 2.0 is released. My two
> main concerns are:
> 
> - People currently using SEXTANTE as a non-core plugin will have 2
> versions of SEXTANTE installed when they install 2.0. This is likely
> to cause strange behaviour, and, as some users have reported on the
> mailing list, it seems that the non-core plugin (in this case, the
> older version), will override the other one. Not a nice thing... The
> solution is to manually uninstall it, but that is going to cause a lot
> of confusion...

Yes, non-core plugin overrides the core one (just because of the Python path 
order), so the only thing you can do is to make the core SEXTANTE version 
higher - at least QGIS will warn about the override and suggest manual 
uninstall.

But we use the new .qgis2 directory, so I guess we just should tell users to 
not copy the .qgis to .qgis2 thoughtlessly...

In addition, we could prevent QGIS 2.0 from loading uncompatible plugins. The 
repository and the installer assume, that plugins with qgisMinimumVersion==1.x 
are only compatible with 1.x unless it's strictly set by an optional tag 
qgisMaximumVersion (>= 2.0). The same behaviour could be implemented for 
loading plugins.

> - I have a few features that will not be ready for 2.0, but I would
> like to release them later, just releasing a new versino of SEXTATE
> independently. However, I think that core plugins cannot be updated.
> Installing the new one separately will cause two version to be
> installed...

Exactly, the base version in core and updates in user directory. The problem 
will be when you release a new version with QGIS 2.1, the updates for 2.0 will 
override the new version. But we can improve the override detection procedure 
for 2.1 (for example, the installer could uninstall the overriding version 
instead of only warning)

> Any ideas on that? I see that the easiest solution would be to have
> something in the plugin manager that, in case of having two versions
> of a plugin, would use just the most recent one.

Or uninstall the overriding plugin, if older. It would be probably more 
elegant solution...


> Thanks in advance!
> Victor
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