[Qgis-developer] Plugins for 1.8 and 2.0 in one repository

[Borys Jurgiel]

Dnia czwartek, 6 czerwca 2013 o 14:21:58 Matthias Kuhn napisał(a):
> Hi Borys, I just had a look at the plugin manager. Big thumbs up, this
> is good stuff!!
> 
> To your question: version 2 sounds reasonable to me as well. We can
> easily control the future parameters and append the qgis version always.

Thanks. Alessandro, what is your opinion? This version is all on your side.

> Am I correct, that in the future, there is no (easy) way of installing
> an older version of a plugin?
> If yes, I'm not really a fan. If the plugin maintainer releases a buggy
> version, there is no way to revert to an old working version until the
> maintainer releases a bugfixed version.

I think about implementing it in 2.1. Of course it would either require 
sending the whole plugin set in the xml or aditinal API requests for "get 
other versions" (I prefr the former, as the latter would raise a number of new 
problems).

> All in all, what are we talking about in terms of size? With a
> compression enabled HTTP connection, I don't expect the plugin xml to
> be too large to pass through any internet connection in a timely manner.

The size is now ~300kB, so the full set would be probably 1-2MB. You're right, 
it's rather a matter of better hardware. If you look at the download progress, 
the new central repo downloading time is a few times longer than any other 
repo, but most of the time is the response lag, not data transfer.

> Also, this request can easily happen asynchronously, so we don't even
> have to interrupt the UI.

It is done asynchronously already. Otherwise QGIS would load maybe two times 
longer :)