Thanks for the response Daniel. I'll just leave them all installed. Was just trying to clean up some (seemingly superfluous) clutter.
If I could suggest one UI change: Give users a way to hide/show plugins that can't be removed or disabled because they're dependencies. Basically, provide a view of installed plugins that only includes those that can be "operated on". On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 3:23 AM, Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 03.05.2016, at 03:08, Jay Howard <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > For instance, I'd like to remove the Subversion plugin but I'm blocked > because the Parameterized Trigger plugin has an "optional" dependency on it. > > A known limitation of the current UI. > > > Also, a surprisingly large number of plugins seem to depend on on the > "Windows Slaves" plugin that have nothing to do with Windows. > > Windows Slaves used to be part of core, then its functionality was moved > to a plugin in 1.547. The problem is, we don't know whether a plugin built > against 1.546 or earlier uses its features, so Jenkins treats those as > having a dependency on the 'detached' plugin. Not doing this may break > plugins with cryptic error messages. > > There is currently no way to work around this other than change all > plugins built against an older Jenkins release to build against 1.547+ so > they need to declare an explicit dependency if they use the plugin's > features. > > Note that you may decide to be clever and just delete the Windows Slaves > plugin from disk. Don't do that. If it doesn't already cause breakage > today, there's a change coming soon that would definitely make all plugins > with dependencies fail to load on startup. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jenkinsci-users/pHqvJSIoIyQ/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5A151AFA-54E0-48FA-BD95-F8D39DB9AF90%40beckweb.net > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAAcb1Yx9-OVMjYw8EnVhD%3D9NH7x_5%2BpmwNMRuLxo40xkpuJA7w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
