[Qgis-developer] Core Python plugins and their dependencies

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Tom,

yes, I know that all this packages required by MetaSearch.
But as Jürgen said all this packages available from package
manager in most Linux distros and in OSGeo4W.

2014-11-25 16:14 GMT+02:00 Tom Kralidis <tomkralidis at gmail.com>:
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> On Tue, 25 Nov 2014, Jürgen E. wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 14:45:55 +0100
>> From: Jürgen E. <jef at norbit.de>
>> Reply-To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] Core Python plugins and their dependencies
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> On Tue, 25. Nov 2014 at 15:06:30 +0200, Alexander Bruy wrote:
>>>
>>> DB Manager depends on psycopg2 and pyspatialite, but we does not ship
>>> this
>>> packages into QGIS source tree. Same for Processing, it contains several
>>> algorithms that require matplotlib and we does not bundle matplotlib in
>>> QGIS
>>> source tree. And it is fine, as user can easily install this packages
>>> using
>>> package manager or pip.
>>
>>
>> We ship pyspatialite - that's not available everywhere and in case we're
>> using
>> internal spatialite it should be built against that version.
>>
>>
>>> I think it would be good to have clear policy on this.
>>
>>
>> Well, I don't have a good idea what thise clear policy could be.  I'd say
>> there
>> should be a compelling reason why third party dependencies are included.
>>
>> pyspatialite is there because of internal spatialite.  Maybe that can be
>> reconsidered too.  I doubt that anything uses internal spatialite anymore
>> and
>> there also pysqlite that could be used with spatialite instead of
>> pyspatialite.
>>
>> owslib is not available everywhere - also AFAIK it's closely releated to
>> MetaSearch and has the same upstream.
>>
>> Everything else could be removed from ext-libs AFAICS.
>>
>>
>
> FYI the other deps in
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/python/ext-libs are either
> required by OWSLib or MetaSearch proper.
>
> OWSLib: dateutil, pytz,
> jinja2: markupsafe, pygments, six
>
> I've deleted python/ext-libs/tests as this was a (since fixed) buggy
> artifact of the OWSLib build/install.
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Alexander Bruy