[Qgis-developer] [SoC] Resource Sharing in QGIS - Weekly Report #6

[Borys Jurgiel]

I'm sorry I didn't mention it earlier. Well, now I'd start from writting down 
all the needed metadata tags (for plugins they are in the file I mentioned; 
Victor, could you prepare such list for SEXTANTE?) and all needed API calls.
I believe it may lead to a decision of making qgs classes for data structures, 
like I mentioned. Those structures can be still populated with data by the 
serverside-filtering API, to not invest too much GSoC time into refactoring. A 
new API can be added in version 2 and the old one can be depreciated (or not) 
in a version 3... I must say I don't have much experience with similar 
solutions existing around, so for me your work on styles is still a kind of 
prototypying, and I expect many ideas may change.

Anyway, my next task should be a real versioning for plugins, in order to 
allow downloading (and locking) any previous version of a non working plugin.
As I'd like to avoid downloading all the thousands of plugins x versions in 
each request for local filtering, we'll probably have to add more requests to 
the API. Most likely, there will be an aditional metadata tag 
"alternate_versions" included to the main big request, and also another 
requests for details of the chosen version. I'll think about it for Brighton. 

As you see there is still a lot of details to be precised, so don't be 
disappointed if you find your present work more a prototype than the final long-
term stage :-)

Borys

Dnia czwartek, 1 sierpnia 2013 o 17:47:02 aruntheguy at gmail.com napisał(a):
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for the ideas. And Borys, your idea does make me question a
> lot of things and the approach I have taken. As far as the symbols go,
> I think I am on the right side with server side filtering. But when we
> move towards more complicated stuff with votes, and versioning, it
> does makes sense to have a local cache of meta-data to do the
> filtering. I guess I will have to think more about this and figure out
> the distinction and the way through it. Thank you for giving me the
> other way to do.