[Qgis-user] Add 3rd party repos button?

[Agustin Lobo]

I would not call that encouraging but rather pressing.

I think that by now we can see that some developers prefer keeping
their plugins in their
own repository, perhaps to stress their authorship, to make their web
sites more visible...  who knows.
In any case, the availability of some important plugins such as
openlayers has become much less obvious
without the "Add 3rd party plugins" button.
As Carson Farmed said
"I'd also like to suggest that the 'add 3rd party repos' button should
simply fetch a list of 3rd party repositories from the QGIS server
(some sort of list created by an online submission system). That way
there is no hard-coding of repos by Borys, and it's fair for all
authors. We can certainly have a few different lists (i.e. well tested
repos, experimental repos, and untested repos)."

I think that the "Add 3rd party plugins" button (or some other simple
way of adding these repos to the list) should come back.

Agus

2012/6/17 Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com>:
> Currently yes.  We are trying to encourage everyone to move their
> plugins to the official repo.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>> On 17/06/2012 15:12, Nathan Woodrow wrote:
>>
>> Hi Micha,
>>
>> This support has been dropped for 1.8 in an effort to better organize
>> the plugin situation. For 1.8 the only default plugin repo that is
>> available is the offical repo at plugins.qgis.org.  Sounds like a
>> harsh/bold move but having all the plugins in one place is a lot
>> easier to manage and allows for a better user experience.
>>
>>
>> Thanks, I figured that that was the decision.
>> So for plugins that still live only on 3rd party repos, I have to manually
>> add the URL? (i.e. Openlayers, Topocolors, the Faunalia plugins etc.)
>>
>> - Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>>
>> It seems that in 1.8 the "Add 3rd party repositories" button is gone from
>> Fetch plugins. Or am I missing something?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Micha
>>
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