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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/14/2016 10:00 PM, Tim Sutton
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            <div class="">On 14 Jan 2016, at 18:06, Pablo Fernández
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                       We are currently developing a QGIS plugin were we
                      wish to generate some Excel files as output. <br
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                       In order to build the spreadsheet file we need to
                      use some python modules installed from pip
                      (openpyxl, xlwt, etc). This dependency will force
                      every user to manually install the needed package
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                     This situation leaves us with the following
                    question: is possible or it will be in the future to
                    manage this kind of dependencies from QGIS side when
                    the user installs the plugin? <br class="">
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          <div>Although it has been discussed and some prototyping was
            done to support automatic installation of dependencies at
            the last hackfest, there isn’t anything in the released
            versions of QGIS to support this yet. If your packages have
            no operating system specific binaries in them, then I
            suggest to bundle them into your plugin and use an
            appropriate import path relative to your code. Note there is
            a limit on how big your plugin can be (I think it is 10mb)
            so you need to ensure your 3rd party deps do not bulk out
            your plugin too much.</div>
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    We bundled xlwt and xlrd as .egg with a plugin recently:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/opengisch/shpsync/blob/master/xlwt-1.0.0-py2.7.egg">https://github.com/opengisch/shpsync/blob/master/xlwt-1.0.0-py2.7.egg</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/opengisch/shpsync/blob/master/xlrd-0.9.4-py2.7.egg">https://github.com/opengisch/shpsync/blob/master/xlrd-0.9.4-py2.7.egg</a><br>
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    Until there's a cross-platform dependency management (which I know
    that several people are looking into) that's the safest road to
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    Best<br>
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    Matthias<br>
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