[phpMyAdmin Developers] Removing plugins

[Marc Delisle]

Le 2015-10-18 10:26, Isaac Bennetch a écrit :
> As you may recall from the last IRC meeting, I'm working on testing and
> documentation around issue #6137 [0] by removing some
> features/plugins/libraries and testing/documenting my success.
> 
> So far I've had good luck with removing some things (for instance
> tcpdf), but I've discovered two noteworthy problems.
> 
> 1) When js/jqplot/ is removed, "Status -> Query statistics" does not
> fail gracefully, it instead offers to submit a report to the error
> reporting server.
> 
> 2) when libraries/gis/ is removed, "Visulize GIS data" does not fail
> gravefully, instead it gets stuck on saying "Loading..."
> 
> In comparison, something that degrades very well is the removal of
> tcpdf; if the pdf library is missing the export dialog simply doesn't
> show PDF as an export type.
> 
> So my question is what you think we should do about this -- this is
> clearly beyond the scope of what is normally expected; it's not normal
> for a user to remove libraries and code, but in order for this feature
> request to be improved I think the code should handle this better.
> Should we spend time on this?
> 
> 0 - https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/issues/6137

I believe that for now, you should document how to remove only stuff
that degrades well and close this issue.


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