[Qgis-developer] feature freeze exception

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey Borys,

I would see this more as a bug fix then a new feature.

- Nathan


On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Borys Jurgiel <lists at borysjurgiel.pl> wrote:

> Hi Tim, hi All,
>
> Last time Martin switched the plugin manager to only use metadata.txt
> instead
> of __init__.py , and now I'm updating installer to use the same.
>
> Old plugins without metadata.txt are not displayed in the manager, however
> they are available in installer (because it doesn't know about the lack of
> metadata.txt unless the plugin is installed), so it's important to mark
> them
> as invalid after install to explain to the user their state.
>
> Because 'displaying plugins without metadata as invalid' can be recognized
> as
> a new feature and I won't manage to implement it in 15 minutes, I'd like to
> ask for freeze exception for this small feature. I believe it would be a
> huge
> regression if plugins without metadata.txt disapeared with no sign.
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