[Qgis-developer] Re: Complicate the plugin situation

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 19/01/2012 17:07, 3nids ha scritto:

> I have to say it is not a trivial task and might discourage people as it is
> right now.

Agreed.

> There are inconsistencies in the page http://plugins.qgis.org : 
> -  the linked wiki
> http://hub.qgis.org/wiki/quantum-gis/Writing_Python_Plugins has moved

removed.

> - As already stated, it tells you to register your plugin at
> http://hub.qgis.org/projects/qgis-user-plugins where you cannot create a
> project

Can someone fix this please?

> Also, when submitting the plugin, I needed to give a metadata file, which I
> did not heard about. When I looked in PyQGIS cook book at writting plugins (
> http://www.qgis.org/pyqgis-cookbook/plugins.html#writing-a-plugin ), the
> info about metada is unclear and tells you to register the plugin at another
> repo http://pyqgis.org/

So the cookbook has to be fixed.

> The warnings when you upload the plugin are somehow discouraging also....

Can you please fill appropriate tickets suggesting better messages etc?

Thanks a lot for the effort. With your help, the process can be streamlined.

All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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