Hi > On 05 Nov 2015, at 10:50, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05-11-15 04:56, Tim Sutton wrote: >>> Some random thoughts: >>> >>> Quite powerful... but ... the current plugin packaging has very >>> limited requirements: it's just a zipped folder with a couple of >>> mandatory metadata and a class interface, building a simple plugin is >>> definitely an easy task. >>> >>> I'm afraid that by using a much more complicate system (such as >>> setuptools), would solve some problem for the (few) complex plugins >>> and create a lot of problems and increase the barrier for the vast >>> majority of simpler plugin authors. >
> I agree with Tim, unless we come up with a very simple way, this will > not solve the problem: "non tech savvy users cannot setup their python > environment for some complex plug”. Just a note that the comments above are from Ale, not from me… Regards Tim > > The different module versions problem I do not see as a practical > problem, most times python can work with higher versions. Let's keep it > the responsibility of the plugin builders to keep up with versions of > their modules. > I still think just copy the modules into the plugin is easiest (although > redundant). > And if you cannot package the lib with your plugin because of OS > problems: documentation is the answer... > > Somebody with this insights, maybe can write a chapter about python path > magics and how QGIS works with that? > > Regards, > > Richard > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer — Tim Sutton Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: * Desktop GIS programming services * Geospatial web development * GIS Training * Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net Tim is a member of the QGIS Project Steering Committee Kartoza is a merger between Linfiniti and Afrispatial
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