<div dir="ltr">I agree with nyall, the problem with distributing dll or os we can trust that they are build against the plugin code.<div><br></div><div>years ago we almost agreed to ask plugin authors to install dll or .so by the plugin or manually <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">from a third party repo</span> with the express consensus of the author. I wouldn't host binaries in the plugin repo.</div><div><br></div><div>my 2c</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Luigi Pirelli<br><br>**************************************************************************************************<br>* LinkedIn: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/luigipirelli</a><br>* Stackexchange: <a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli" target="_blank">http://gis.stackexchange.com/users/19667/luigi-pirelli</a><br>* GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/luipir" target="_blank">https://github.com/luipir</a><br>* Mastering QGIS 2nd Edition:<br>* <a href="https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition" target="_blank">https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/mastering-qgis-second-edition</a><br>* Hire me: <a href="http://goo.gl/BYRQKg" target="_blank">http://goo.gl/BYRQKg</a><br>**************************************************************************************************</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 May 2018 at 08:15, Nyall Dawson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" target="_blank">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 8 May 2018 at 15:59, Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
> a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We<br>
> generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the author?<br>
> All the best, and thanks.<br>
<br>
</span>Looks like a great plugin - at least if the sample results are<br>
anything to go by!<br>
<br>
I've had a quick look over the code and there's nothing too scary<br>
there. I'd suggest that we could approach the author of the plugin and<br>
see if they are interested in submitting the code to the master<br>
branch, so that the code is compiled alongside qgis. This way the<br>
binary won't be an issue, and the algorithm will become available<br>
out-of-the-box. Seems like a win all round to me.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Nyall<br>
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> [0] <a href="http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/karika/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://plugins.qgis.org/<wbr>plugins/karika/</a><br>
> [1] <a href="https://gitlab.com/motlimot/karika/tree/master/lib" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://gitlab.com/motlimot/<wbr>karika/tree/master/lib</a><br>
> --<br>
> Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
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