[Qgis-developer] Plugin Dependencies

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

> On 05 Nov 2015, at 10:50, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> 
> On 05-11-15 04:56, Tim Sutton wrote:
>>> Some random thoughts:
>>> 
>>> Quite powerful... but ... the current plugin packaging has very
>>> limited requirements: it's just a zipped folder with a couple of
>>> mandatory metadata and a class interface, building a simple plugin is
>>> definitely an easy task.
>>> 
>>> I'm afraid that by using a much more complicate system (such as
>>> setuptools), would solve some problem for the (few) complex plugins
>>> and create a lot of problems and increase the barrier for the vast
>>> majority of simpler plugin authors.
> 




> I agree with Tim, unless we come up with a very simple way, this will
> not solve the problem: "non tech savvy users cannot setup their python
> environment for some complex plug”.


Just a note that the comments above are from Ale, not from me…

Regards

Tim
> 
> The different module versions problem I do not see as a practical
> problem, most times python can work with higher versions. Let's keep it
> the responsibility of the plugin builders to keep up with versions of
> their modules.
> I still think just copy the modules into the plugin is easiest (although
> redundant).
> And if you cannot package the lib with your plugin because of OS
> problems: documentation is the answer...
> 
> Somebody with this insights, maybe can write a chapter about python path
> magics and how QGIS works with that?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard
> 
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