[Qgis-developer] Preparing for the release announcement - plugin manager site

[Chris Crook]

Thanks for this ... I'll recode the __init__.py to comply with this.

The stuff about the index.html is on the same wiki page you referenced (under documentation).  I'll look at filing a feature request for that.

Cheers
Chris

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From: Alessandro Pasotti [mailto:apasotti at gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 15 June 2011 9:30 a.m.
To: Chris Crook
Cc: Qgis Developer List; Tim Sutton
Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Preparing for the release announcement - plugin manager site

2011/6/14 Chris Crook <ccrook at linz.govt.nz<mailto:ccrook at linz.govt.nz>>
Hi

The repository looks good, but I couldn't upload the plugin - it failed with the message

   "File upload must be a valid QGIS Python plugin compressed archive. Cannot find valid metadata in VectorFieldRenderer/__init__.py"

I suspect that this is because my __init__.py is structured as

  from Plugin import Plugin

  def name():
      return Plugin.LongName

  ...

rather than just being specified as

  def name():
      return "VectorFieldRenderer"


Yes, this is probably the reason.

For security reasons there is no "eval" on the python code, a simple regexp is used instead to extract the strings from the __init__ file.



Is there a document which describes how a plugin needs to be coded to be uploadable to the repository?



This is one of the docs: http://www.qgis.org/wiki/Writing_Python_Plugins#__init__.py

while developing the new repo, some variations were introduced, like the icon (IIRC this has been discussed on the list).


Also some while ago I proposed a convention of putting plugin documentation in an index.html file in the plugin directory (which is now supported by the showPluginHelp function in utils.py).  I wonder if it would be good provide access to this from the plugin repository (ie make it available for viewing if it is included in the zip file).


I can't comment on this, I wasn't aware of this functionality.
You can file a feature request if you like.


Also I'm wondering how to specify plugin tags?


Tags were introduced in Lisbon, at this time, they are only editable through the plugin web interface, there is currently no way to put them in the __init__ and have them automatically imported in the repo.


Thanks for your feedback.

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Alessandro Pasotti
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