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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=533281522-14062011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Thanks for this ... I'll recode the __init__.py to comply with
this. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=533281522-14062011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>The stuff about the index.html is on the same wiki page you
referenced (under documentation). I'll look at filing a feature request
for that.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=533281522-14062011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Cheers</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=533281522-14062011><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2 face=Arial>Chris</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Alessandro Pasotti
[mailto:apasotti@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 15 June 2011 9:30
a.m.<BR><B>To:</B> Chris Crook<BR><B>Cc:</B> Qgis Developer List; Tim
Sutton<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Qgis-developer] Preparing for the release
announcement - plugin manager site<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote>2011/6/14 Chris Crook <SPAN dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:ccrook@linz.govt.nz">ccrook@linz.govt.nz</A>></SPAN><BR>
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class=gmail_quote>Hi<BR><BR>The repository looks good, but I couldn't upload
the plugin - it failed with the message<BR><BR> "File upload
must be a valid QGIS Python plugin compressed archive. Cannot find valid
metadata in VectorFieldRenderer/__init__.py"<BR><BR>I suspect that this is
because my __init__.py is structured as<BR><BR> from Plugin import
Plugin<BR><BR> def name():<BR> return
Plugin.LongName<BR><BR> ...<BR><BR>rather than just being specified
as<BR><BR> def name():<BR> return
"VectorFieldRenderer"<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Yes, this is probably the reason.</DIV>
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<DIV>For security reasons there is no "eval" on the python code, a simple
regexp is used instead to extract the strings from the __init__ file.</DIV>
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class=gmail_quote>Is there a document which describes how a plugin needs to
be coded to be uploadable to the repository?<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>This is one of the docs: <A
href="http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Writing_Python_Plugins#__init__.py">http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Writing_Python_Plugins#__init__.py</A></DIV>
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<DIV>while developing the new repo, some variations were introduced, like the
icon (IIRC this has been discussed on the list).</DIV>
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class=gmail_quote>Also some while ago I proposed a convention of putting
plugin documentation in an index.html file in the plugin directory (which is
now supported by the showPluginHelp function in utils.py). I wonder if
it would be good provide access to this from the plugin repository (ie make
it available for viewing if it is included in the zip file).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>I can't comment on this, I wasn't aware of this
functionality. </DIV>
<DIV>You can file a feature request if you like.</DIV>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>Also I'm wondering how to specify plugin
tags?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Tags were introduced in Lisbon, at this time, they are only editable
through the plugin web interface, there is currently no way to put them in the
__init__ and have them automatically imported in the repo.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for your feedback.</DIV><BR>-- <BR>Alessandro
Pasotti<BR>w3: <A
href="http://www.itopen.it">www.itopen.it</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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