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

[Tim Sutton]

Hi


> 
> > 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 too. There is another reason to adopt this approach - it is hard to build something relying that if the user has QGIS version X they will also have processing algorithm Y - which is something we are running into here with our plugin development.

Regards

Tim
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