[Qgis-developer] python as plugin

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I like this idea. If I understand it correctly then the 'master'
python plugin would check at run time if python is present and qgis
python bindings are available and then load itself and any available
python plugins?

Regards

Tim

2008/4/15, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de>:
> Hi there,
>
>  I've been thinking about turning the python support into a plugin.  If
>  we compile with Python support, we have a static python dependency in
>  the qgis binary.
>
>  I think that's an issue for packaging.  With python support as plugin,
>  we could split the python plugin into a separate shared library.  If
>  python isn't there, the load of the plugin simply fails (similar to the
>  GRASS plugin).
>
>  On Debian for instance that would open the possiblity to split off the
>  python depencency to a separate package (currently the qgis executable
>  itself depends on python) and make providing individual packages for
>  different python version easier.
>
>  On Windows we wouldn't need to package python with qgis. We'd just
>  notify the user that python is available and will appear when python is
>  installed.
>
>  Maybe we should do the same for GRASS.  Instead of packaging GRASS with
>  QGIS on windows, we'd dynamically depend on the WinGRASS package.
>
>  This could be done by implementing plugin providers implemented in C++
>  that allow to load, unload and list available and loaded plugins.  The
>  plugin provider would be registered with the plugin registry on load.
>
>  Initially there would be a builtin plugin provider for C++ plugins and a
>  provider plugin for python plugins.  That plugin would depends on the
>  python library and also provide the python bindings.
>
>  That way we could also generalize the handling of plugins in QgisApp and
>  the plugin manager and eliminate HAVE_PYTHON there.
>
>  Comments?
>
>
>  Jürgen
>
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