[Qgis-developer] Python plugin development

[Martin Dobias]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl> wrote:
>> I've also thought about this possibility. It would be great if there
>> was a list of repositories at some fixed URL under QGIS homepage, I
>> can think of a simple XML file. This sounds much better that parsing
>> the repos from wiki. Is this feasible?
>
> At this moment I can only add a posibility of looking for new repositories in
> XML file to the Installer.
>
> Btw. I wonder about splitting the official repostoty to two smaller: one for
> experimental plugins and second for well tested and commonly priced ones. Now
> we have mixing of important tools and templates for devs, which may be
> confusing for common users.

Exactly, I'll be glad to see that. In main repository there are
several great plugins but the list is cluttered with others,
experimental or not usable by wide audience.
The server-side implementation should be fairly simple, a matter of
new flag indicating whether the plugin is "official". The
administrator would explicitly decide which plugins are official and
from that the web application will generate two different lists.
Gary, please could you look at this?

Martin