[Qgis-developer] Plugin metadata in a text file

[Martin Dobias]

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes. And there are more things that should be added: plugin home page,
author name, author mail, ...

> 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.

I remember some discussions on this topic on qgis-dev list. The
dependencies may be external python modules, other qgis python
plugins, maybe something more...

Martin