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 <[email protected]>: > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >> >> -- >> Micha Silver >> 052-3665918 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> >> This mail was received via Mail-SeCure System. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Micha Silver >> 052-3665918 > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
