[Qgis-developer] Managing plugins that depend on other plugins

[Vincent Mora]

Hi,

The problem already happened when I developed processing plugins (which
depend on processing), now it happens because I'm developing a complex
plugin with some parts that will be useful as independent plugins (so I
developed them as plugins): there is no clean way that I know about to
specify dependencies and inform the user when they are not available.

It would be nice if the plugin manager could use a list of dependencies
to activate several plugins at a time.

The same mechanism could also be used to test if non-standard
dependencies required by a plugin are available.

It could be in metadata.txt, or, even better, in requirements.txt, what
do you think ?

V.