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#1 2010-01-02 00:14:11

mathiasm
Former Piwigo Team
2006-02-06
2650

Plugin removal behavior

HI

I realized that when you uninstal a plugin, you are not warned about losing related data. This may be good to have a popup warning about potential data loss when uninstalling a plugin.

It occurs to me when trying to upgrade typet@gs. I deactivated the plugin, whihc is ok. Willing to be clean, i choose to uninstall  before reinstall => all settings lost, no warning, no way back (apart from database backup).

Do you think it's worth a Mantis' issue ?

Cheers

Mathias

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#2 2010-01-02 09:12:00

VDigital
Former Piwigo Team
Paris (FR)
2005-05-04
17680

Re: Plugin removal behavior

Reasonable but...

You (personally) should be aware, rvelices and I explained several times "Do not uninstall your plugins!",
RV Maps and Earth for example, will remove lat and lon columns from the picture table.


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#3 2010-01-02 10:06:42

ddtddt
Piwigo Team
Quetigny - France
2007-07-27
7202

Re: Plugin removal behavior

The authors of the plugins can also provide the option to uninstall : delete or keep the tables?


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#4 2010-01-03 23:43:41

mathiasm
Former Piwigo Team
2006-02-06
2650

Re: Plugin removal behavior

VDigital wrote:

Reasonable but...

You (personally) should be aware, rvelices and I explained several times "Do not uninstall your plugins!",
RV Maps and Earth for example, will remove lat and lon columns from the picture table.

I, maybe, but all the other users doing an upgrade ?
rvelices said that, but not everybody were here :-)
When a new version of typet@gs or RV M&E comes out, there is a risk. One more warning does not seem too much to me.

ddtddt wrote:

The authors of the plugins can also provide the option to uninstall : delete or keep the tables?

Yes, but what do you do about the already published ones and about the ones where the publisher forget it.

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