Re: [QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS: Meta data fields

2020-04-01 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 21:34, Sebastian M. Ernst wrote: > > Hi Etienne, Nyall, > > thanks for your replies. > > >> Then a plugin can have or not a processing provider (not related to the > >> statement before). > > > > Just to expand on this -- this tag was added to aid in > >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS: Meta data fields

2020-04-01 Thread Sebastian M. Ernst
Hi Etienne, Nyall, thanks for your replies. >> Then a plugin can have or not a processing provider (not related to the >> statement before). > > Just to expand on this -- this tag was added to aid in > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/34617 , [...] Ok, this makes sense. I just tried to trace

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS: Meta data fields

2020-03-31 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Wed, 1 Apr 2020 at 05:22, Etienne Trimaille wrote: > Then a plugin can have or not a processing provider (not related to the > statement before). Just to expand on this -- this tag was added to aid in https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/34617 , and expose the metadata about whether a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS: Meta data fields

2020-03-31 Thread Etienne Trimaille
Hi, You will find some answers in the QGIS Documentation about "deprecated", "hasProcessingProvider" ... https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/en/docs/pyqgis_developer_cookbook/plugins/plugins.html#plugin-metadata I'm going to add the "server" one. > So `experimental` is actually a property of a plugin

[QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS: Meta data fields

2020-03-31 Thread Sebastian M. Ernst
Hi everyone, I am still trying to wrap my head around plugin management. Looking at (Python) plugin metadata, I have a few questions. The meta data contains the fields `experimental` and `deprecated`. Having written plugins, I believe that certain versions of a plugin (but not "the entire