[Qgis-developer] feature freeze exception

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Borys,
>
> I would see this more as a bug fix then a new feature.
>

Yes same here, Borys this would fall under consistency and clean up
leading up to the release.


Regards

Tim

> - 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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