[Qgis-developer] Re: Plugins with unsatisfied dependencies

[Lionel Roubeyrie]

Hi Martin,
yes you've right, my idea with a text/html file is just a start point,
not a general request. After, it's how these metadatas will be
"linked" to the plugin (a text/html/xml file inside the zip file or a
filled form on the repo, ...) and how they will be displayed by the
PPI... The end point is to provide more information on a plugin before
it's installation.
Cheers

2010/7/29 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
> Hi Lionel
>
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Lionel Roubeyrie
> <lionel.roubeyrie at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> change is made in 0.7.1 for the contour plugin.
>> Is it possible to hope to see a little change in the plugin system
>> where plugins devs have the possibility to append a more general
>> description, not only in a single line? In this way, maybe a simple
>> text/html file in the plugin package where can be specified
>> dependencies, special attentions, descriptions, ... will be displayed
>> by the python plugin installer on a double click or other but before
>> the installation...
>
> At some point in future, I'd like to have support for this metadata:
> - dependencies: to allow the plugins list which packages they require
> - author email: it's sometimes hard to reach the authors if their mail
> is unknown
> - url: web page dedicated to the plugin (already supported in
> repositories, but not inside the plugins)
> - icon: helps users to visually identify the plugin
>
> IMHO supplying a text/html file would complicate things unnecessarily.
> The plugin installer could allow the user to visit the plugin's URL -
> that web page could contain exactly the information you would
> otherwise had to pass along the plugin.
>
> Regards
> Martin
>



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