[phpMyAdmin Developers] Removing plugins

[Madhura Jayaratne]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:07 PM, Marc Delisle <marc at infomarc.info> 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.
>
> And may be open issues for others to track the progress of them achieving
this status.

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Thanks and Regards,

Madhura Jayaratne
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