[Qgis-developer] Plugin Dependencies

[Victor Olaya]

The ext-libs folder is not in the repo. It is populated by the paver
setup task. Once you run the task, the libraries will be installed in
there

Hope this helps

2015-10-21 15:28 GMT+02:00 Geo DrinX <geodrinx at gmail.com>:
> Ola Victor !  :)
>
> 2015-10-07 17:50 GMT+02:00 Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com>:
>>
>> At the moment, you have to ship them with your plugin, in the plugin
>> zip file. If the lib uses native code, you will need to include
>> binaries for all OSs that you want to support, and the corresponding
>> mechanism to pick one or the other.
>>
>> As an example, you can see how it is done in this plugin
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/boundlessgeo/qgis-geoserver-plugin/blob/master/src/geoserverexplorer/__init__.py
>>
>> Dependencies are stored in a folder called "ext-libs", which is added
>> to the python path by the plugin
>>
>> Notice that that folder is not in the repo, there is a paver task to
>> fetch the dependencies from PyPi
>>
>> Notice also that QGIS has its folder with python libs
>>
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/python/ext-libs
>>
>> Make sure that the libs you require are not already in there
>
>
>
> In my case ( GEarthView QGIS plugin )  I have  two external libraries:
>
> twisted
> zope
>
>
> that I need to install manually  :(
>
> On windows,  they need to be copied for each new version of QGIS, inside the
> folder:
>
> QGIS VERSION\apps\Python27\Lib\site-packages\
>
>
> Instead, on MacOSX, they are  (once and for all) inside the standard  python
> library folder, as I explained in my blog:
>
> http://exporttocanoma.blogspot.it/2015/01/gearthview-20-plugin-per-qgis.html
>
>
> I have tried several times to make sure that it was not necessary to install
> anything, including the libraries in my plugins, so far I have not
> succeeded.   So, that your message has rekindled my hopes  :)    but there
> are some things I do not understand, in your explanation  (my fault).
>
> Here are my steps:
>
> 1) I modified my  geodrinx/__init__.py      adding:
>
> site.addsitedir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__) + '/ext-libs'))
>
> Question:  where need I to create this  ext-libs   folder ?    I looked into
> the plugin that you indicate, but I found no "ext-libs" folder.
>
> Could you please explain me (us)  better ?
>
>
> Thank you much
>
> A presto
>
> Roberto
>