[phpMyAdmin Developers] Removing plugins

[Isaac Bennetch]

On 10/19/15 7:07 AM, Marc Delisle wrote:
> 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.

Okay, I'll work toward that goal. Thanks.