[Qgis-developer] Python plugin development

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

I wonder if it would be feasible to make another control that fetches  
a list of repos from a central page (even parsing out the wiki page  
could work) and then once you have selected  a repository, it will  
fetch a list of available plugins from that repo. I was trying to add  
Carsons famous manageR plugin to qgis today and didnt know where to  
find it (I didnt have time to do a search for it on wiki etc) and it  
sure would be nice to be able to serenipitously find plugins beyond  
the official qgis repo but from within the plugin manager. Of course  
there may be bad security implications to this and at some stage we  
should contemplate this a bit more deeply - installing a python  
plugin means you are essentially downloading and running arbitary  
code and running it with all your user credentials which could be a  
very bad thing indeed security wise...

Regards

Tim


Em May 27, 2008, às 7:35 AM, Martin Dobias escreveu:

> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:48 AM, Carson Farmer <cfarmer at uvic.ca>  
> wrote:
>> Hello QGIS Python Plugin Developers,
>>
>> It has come to my attention that there are quite a few of us  
>> plugging away
>> at various plugins (yes that was a bit of a pun ;) ). It has also  
>> occurred
>> to me that many of us are probably working on very similar  
>> plugins, and that
>> we are probably duplicating development efforts! So, I suggest we  
>> try to
>> maintain some sort of list where we can keep each other up-to-date  
>> on what
>> we are working on, what we are having trouble with, etc. This  
>> would also
>> give people an opportunity to integrate plugin development  
>> efforts, and get
>> help on specific problems etc. The PythonPluginsIdeas wiki page 
>> [1], is
>> already setup to do this, so perhaps we should make a conscious  
>> effort to
>> use it.
>>
>> [1] http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/PythonPluginIdeas
>
> I've added a page summarizing known plugin repositories - useful for
> both users seeking for plugins and developers seeking for code samples
> or ideas:
> http://wiki.qgis.org/qgiswiki/PluginRepositories
>
> Martin
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