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I believe that I've solved my earlier issue with my QGIS plugin, which previously relied on a pip package. In order to avoid this dependency, I decided to include the Whitebox Workflows wheel in with my plugin. Unfortunately, however, this has increased the
size of my plugin fairly substantially. The issue is that I need to included a wheel for each of the four supported operating systems and each are about 10MB. My plugin zip file is now a little less than 40MB. When I try to upload the new version to the QGIS
plugin repo it is telling me that the file is too large. Does anyone know what the maximum size of a plugin zip file is? Thanks.</div>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Prof. John Lindsay</p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dept. of Geography, Environment & Geomatics,</span></p>
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The University of Guelph,</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56074</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Web: <a href="https://geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/lindsay-john" id="OWA07041edd-2f17-c9c8-774f-fe4627c5c667" class="OWAAutoLink" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Research page: <a href="https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html" id="OWA41e20788-dc1e-cf49-0081-1390dfb14632" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I am developing a new QGIS plugin (<a href="https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/whitebox_workflows_for_qgis/#plugin-manage" id="OWA6df512b2-6399-b6c1-1ea2-987fca59d34f" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly">https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/whitebox_workflows_for_qgis/#plugin-manage</a>)
that serves as a frontend for a Python geospatial analysis library called Whitebox Workflows for Python (WbW). The plugin seems to work well with on major exception, it requires that the user have WbW installed. It can be installed quite easily using pip (pip
install whitebox-workflows), however, I know that QGIS uses its own localized version of Python, which seems to lack a terminal app access (at least on MacOS). Besides, a better solution would be for the plugin to install this package via pip when it is itself
first installed and launched. I tried to accomplish this with the following code:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This code, which runs whenever the plugin is launched, first checks to see if whitebox_workflows can be imported
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Dept. of Geography, Environment & Geomatics,</span></p>
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The University of Guelph,</p>
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Room 122, Hutt Building,</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">E-mail: jlindsay@uoguelph.ca</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Web: <a href="https://geg.uoguelph.ca/faculty/lindsay-john" id="OWA0776c53f-139d-880f-1a64-1dd856c3b753" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Research page: <a href="https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html" id="OWA8fa205ef-4a16-0c30-81c4-1dafc7f26d08" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-loopstyle="linkonly" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">
https://jblindsay.github.io/ghrg/index.html</a></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">WhiteboxTools GIS project:
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