Opened 14 years ago

Closed 14 years ago

#2412 closed enhancement (fixed)

[FEATURE] Support for user defined plugin path

Reported by: trapanator Owned by: borysiasty
Priority: minor: annoyance Milestone: Version 1.5.0
Component: Python plugins and bindings Version: Trunk
Keywords: Cc:
Must Fix for Release: No Platform: All
Platform Version: Awaiting user input: no

Description

Hi,

in an enterprise environment it would be useful to store plugins in a common shared (SAMBA or NFS) folder.

One nice way to accomplish this would be the use of an environment variabile, like QGIS_ADDITIONAL_PLUGIN_DIR.

At startup, QGIS should search plugin in this directory, too, among the defaults (user home directory and standard qgis plugin dir).

Note: I don't know if it is necessary to have separate directories, for C++ and Python plugins?

Change History (2)

comment:1 by wonder, 14 years ago

IMHO this feature shouldn't be supported for C++ plugins at all. There are lots of binary incompatibilities among various operating systems, system libraries and QGIS versions. This could cause crashed during startup or other potential problems that aren't simply worth it.

For python plugins this can be quite useful.

comment:2 by wonder, 14 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Added in r13236.

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