[Qgis-user] Public Repository for plugins...

[Borys Jurgiel]

Monday 08 of June 2009 22:03:47 Sampson, David napisał(a):
> Maybe those that are interested can have a little thread and come up
> with a temp solutions while the ducks line up...
> 
> I would propose sourceforge as that is what I know and I already help
> admin a project on sourceforge.
> 
> I would say if we can get three plugin groups working together that is a
> good start.
> 
> Any takers?

This is good idea.

The present state of multi-instance plugins I've tried to explain in my previous 
post. In general, you can add to your repository two instances of the same 
plugin:

  <pyqgis_plugin version="0.1" name="Foo Plugin" >
    <description>Some description</description>
    <homepage>http://foo</homepage>
    <qgis_minimum_version>1.0</qgis_minimum_version>
    <file_name>foo.zip</file_name>
    <author_name>Someone</author_name>
    <download_url>http://some_url/some_dir/foo.zip</download_url>
  </pyqgis_plugin>

  <pyqgis_plugin version="0.2-beta" name="Foo Plugin" >
    <description>Some description</description>
    <homepage>http://foo</homepage>
    <qgis_minimum_version>1.0</qgis_minimum_version>
    <file_name>foo.zip</file_name>
    <author_name>Someone</author_name>
    <download_url>http://some_url/another_dir/foo.zip</download_url>
    <experimental>true</experimental>
  </pyqgis_plugin>

Note that there are two plugins foo.zip. The latter one has higher version 
number, but is marked with the optional tag <experimental>. It means, that will 
be chosen as the 'best available' for all users allowing experimental plugins. 
For those, who didn't enable experimental plugins, the former plugin will be 
chosen. Similarly, you can publish one instance for QGIS>=1.0 and another one 
for QGIS >=1.1 Just remember to give a higher version for the latter one and 
installer choose the highest one if the >=1.1 requirement is fulfilled. 

Note that both files are named foo.zip, so you can't put them together to the 
main contributed repository, as they all are stored in one directory there. But 
you can use the suffix I mentioned in my previous mail:

foo.zip      ----> containing the directory "foo"
foo.beta.zip ----> containing the same directory "foo"

Oh, the main repository doesn't handle the 'experimental' tag yet, AFAIK? But I 
hope it will be implemented soon.

Note that there are only two levels of stability: <experimental> or not. It has 
been discussed whether we need more and realized that just don't. Please 
remember that there are so many authors with different opinions and different 
willingness to keep metadata accurate ;) that I found keeping it as simple as 
possible reallyu essential :)