[Qgis-developer] Proposal: removing Processing from plugins repo

[Nyall Dawson]

On 4 Apr 2016 06:40, "Victor Olaya" <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all
>
> I would like to know your opinion about this idea: removing Processing
> from the QGIS plugins repo.
>
> Rationale for this: we have always tried to release new version of
> Processing between releases of QGIS, to provide more updates when
> important fixes are made or interesting functionality is added. This
> sounds good in theory, but it has proven to be difficult to handle.
> The main reason for this is that having the same plugin in the
> installation folder and the user folder leads to strange behaviour
> sometimes, and confusion for users. The Plugin Manager doesn't seem to
> be prepared for this circumstance, and sometimes fails when updating.
>
> I think that maybe is a good idea to handle processing as a core
> plugin, and forget about releasing it outside of QGIS releases.
> Processing should not be in the plugins repo, to avoid confusion.
> Basically, what other core plugins do.
>
> I still see a lot of messages with installation issues and failures,
> and I think it is not a good thing.
>
> What are your thoughts on this?

A big +1 from me. This would help avoid a lot of user confusion.

Nyall

>
> Thanks!
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