[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi

On 20.02.20 12:30, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 4:18 PM Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de
> <mailto:jef at norbit.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Tim,
>
>     On Wed, 19. Feb 2020 at 10:40:37 +0000, Tim Sutton wrote:
>     > What about if we ship QGIS ‘bare bones’ and on first run ask the
>     user if they
>     > would like to install our selection of highly recommended
>     plugins (which are
>     > basically what are in core or things like resource sharing)?
>     That way we
>     > could onramp people into using those whilst still keeping them
>     separate?
>     > Maybe in the plugin website we could just tag ‘endorsed’ plugins
>     to defined
>     > which get installed in this process?
>
>     What about people that don't have network access?   Either because
>     the are in
>     developing countries or in enterprise environments that don't
>     allow random
>     downloads?
>
>     I thought that was the main argument for standalone installers.
>
>
> Yes I think there is still a strong argument for having standalone
> installers - even when there is internet, it can often be slow and
> downloading QGIS (or worse multiple users downloading it in a training
> session) can often be difficult.

I'd go one step further and say, that we should advertise the standalone
installer as myin installer and the other as advanced option. The user
experience with the standalone is soo much better!

Cheers Marco

> The plugins should be able to be easily shared as simple zip files for
> manual installation if they are needed (assuming they are packaged as
> zip files for publishing in the plugin repo anyway).
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>  
>
>
>
>     Jürgen
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