Hi Matthias, On Sat, 25. Jul 2015 at 14:55:53 +0200, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > > Any suggestions on how best to handle this would be appreciated. > Is it required as a buildtime dependency?
No. It's only required for metasearch - like all the other stuff in ext-libs - except pyspatialite. > Assuming it is a runtime dependency > * We can make sure it's installed by default with OSGeo4W No, it's too old in osgeo4w. > * Add it as dependency to the proper linux package It not available or not uptodate enough on all distributions. That why we have it in qgis. That's also why osgeo4w is not uptodate - only qgis would require it in osgeo4w. And maintaining it in both would just duplicate the work. > * You can check when you import it in your plugin and offer the user an > information if he's missing a dependency but that should only happen in > rare > cases. Well as metasearch is a core plugin, qgis should ship everything required (or depend on stuff that is available everywhere). That's why all the stuff was added... Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode
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