[Qgis-developer] New plugin manager and plugin errors

[Matthias Kuhn]

The regression would be that sometimes with the old plugin manager you 
got a stacktrace which helped you to debug a problem where now it fails 
with only the exception message being printed without a call stack.

But thinking about it again... As long as there is an easy solution to 
reproduce the error in a way that you get a call stack it's all not 
that bad.

On Mit 12 Jun 2013 10:59:22 CEST, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
> Dnia środa, 12 czerwca 2013 o 07:00:43 Matthias Kuhn napisał(a):
>> On Mit 12 Jun 2013 00:32:40 CEST, Borys Jurgiel wrote:
>>> Dnia środa, 12 czerwca 2013 o 00:18:28 Ricardo Filipe Soares Garcia da
>>>
>>> napisał(a):
>>>> Nevermind... I just add to click to enable the plugin and it showed me
>>>> the error just as the old plugin manager. Sorry for the noise.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately I didn't manage to include more verbose error message to
>>> the detail panel before the feature freeze, so it has to wait for 2.1.
>>> For now you need to enable and disable the plugin to trigger loading.
>>
>> I would consider this a bug (maybe even a blocker: regression) and not
>> a new feature...
>
> Maybe I don't understand correctly, where is the regression exactly?
>
> In the old installer the plugin status (in the most left column) was set to
> "broken" and that label had a tooltip with one-sentence error summary.
> Now in the plugin detatails you see the same (status+summary) in a yellow box.
>
> In addition, there is a popup window with error summary if plugin fails to
> load right after installation. Does the message in this window differ in the
> old and new installer?