Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 08/05/2018 10:37, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > Sorry for the spam: I meant to add - since I'm passionate about both > cartography and processing, I'd be more than happy to mentor this > change. added to ticket: https://gitlab.com/motlimot/karika/issues/1 thanks! -- Paolo Cavallini -

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 8 May 2018 at 18:35, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On 8 May 2018 at 16:15, Nyall Dawson wrote: >> On 8 May 2018 at 15:59, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 8 May 2018 at 16:15, Nyall Dawson wrote: > On 8 May 2018 at 15:59, Paolo Cavallini wrote: >> Hi all, >> a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We >> generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Luigi Pirelli
I agree with nyall, the problem with distributing dll or os we can trust that they are build against the plugin code. years ago we almost agreed to ask plugin authors to install dll or .so by the plugin or manually from a third party repo with the express consensus of the author. I wouldn't host

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 08/05/2018 08:15, Nyall Dawson ha scritto: > Looks like a great plugin - at least if the sample results are > anything to go by! > > I've had a quick look over the code and there's nothing too scary > there. I'd suggest that we could approach the author of the plugin and > see if they are

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Nyall Dawson
On 8 May 2018 at 15:59, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We > generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the author? > All the best, and thanks. Looks like a great plugin - at least if

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Il 08/05/2018 08:08, Matthias Kuhn ha scritto: > Hi Paolo, > > Do we know the license of the code? I don't find any source code in the > link. apparently GPL: https://gitlab.com/motlimot/karika/blob/master/lib/src/lic.c thanks -- Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu QGIS & PostGIS courses:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Paolo, Do we know the license of the code? I don't find any source code in the link. Matthias On 08.05.18 07:59, Paolo Cavallini wrote: > Hi all, > a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We > generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the

[QGIS-Developer] Including compiled code in plugins

2018-05-08 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the author? All the best, and thanks. [0] http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/karika/ [1] https://gitlab.com/motlimot/karika/tree/master/lib -- Paolo