[Qgis-user] [GRASS-user] QGIS - GRASS Plugin not loading

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Stefan,

On Fri, 05. Feb 2016 at 11:43:07 +0000, Blumentrath, Stefan wrote:
> Depends how you define "stable".
> The nightlies for 2.12 are only receiving bugfixes, so they can be even more
> "stable" than the current point release. However, also fixes can in principle
> introduce new bugs...
> That the GRASS plugin does not install in 2.8 is simply due to the fact that
> it first got introduced in 2.12 (see:
> http://qgis.org/en/site/forusers/visualchangelog212/#plugins)...

Exactly.

> Anyway,I would very much like to see the GRASS integration in QGIS becoming a
> bit more smooth. There have been several post regarding problems with the
> installation of the plugin lately.

> Since the GRASS GIS 7.0.3 just was released: would it be possible to build
> new packages for the different platforms?

Sure it would.  But that will happen with the next point release anyway (every
month) and meanwhile there are also the nightlies.

> Currently it is quite cumbersome, esp. on windows where I have to install two
> QGIS versions (qgis and qgis-rel-dev, since "qgis" is the dependency of the
> plugin and I cannot install only "qgis-rel-dev" alone).

That's wrong.   qgis-rel-dev contains the plugins.  No need to install the
plugins separately.

> In future, avoiding to build the plugin against GRASS release candidates
> (like Martin Landa suggested for Windows) could be a solution.

Correct.  There should be a stable version that will be around for a while.

Another option is to switch to the standalone.  There you get a snapshot of a
working setup (unless grass gets updated in osgeo4w after the qgis packages are
uploaded, but before the standalone installer could be made).

> However, the drawback might be that, people might have to decide whether they
> want to test the GRASS RC or keep the QGIS plugin dependencies. Would it be
> an option to have parallel builds / packages for the stable GRASS 7 and the
> RC (like qgis, qgis-rel-dev and qgis-dev)?

Yes, just as the daily builds of GRASS.



Jürgen

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