[Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

[Nathan Woodrow]

Good idea Martin.

I had the a thought the other day that it would be good to be able to list
the dependencies of the plugin in there too.
This list would have to be hand maintained but the author .  The plugin
installer would then be able to see before trying to install what the
package needs to run correctly.

Just a thought.

- Nathan

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> just want to let you know about a recent addition in master branch: I
> have introduced the possibility to put plugin's metadata to a text
> file (metadata.txt).
>
> Until now plugins' metadata were always retrieved from __init__.py by
> calling python methods. Reading metadata from a text file has the
> advantage of not requiring to load the plugin code and can be done by
> plugin repository.
>
> Metadata in metadata.txt is preferred to the methods in __init__.py -
> if the text file is present, it is used to fetch the values. Backward
> compatibility is preserved - all existing plugins will continue to
> work. From QGIS 2.0 the metadata from __init__.py will not be accepted
> - the metadata.txt file will be required.
>
> Plugin metadata should be in INI file format, recognized by python's
> ConfigParser module and by Qt's QSettings class.
>
> All currently used metadata should be in [general] section. Example use:
>
> [general]
> name=PostGIS manager
> description=Manage your PostGIS database
> version=Version 0.5.15
> icon=icons/postgis_elephant.png
> qgisMinimumVersion=1.0.0
>
>
> Regards
> Martin
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