[Qgis-developer] Plugin [1102] AequilibraE approval notification.

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 12/19/2016 03:33 PM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com
> <mailto:luipir at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Alessandro
> 
>     this can be radical, but has the positive effect to introduce a "best
>     practice" to develop plugins with external binary dependencies... I
>     would agree, but what else respect that plugins that now have already
>     binaries and were accepted? Should be modified!
> 
>     Last case from some minutes ago is this just approved plugin with a
>     jar included
>     https://github.com/enricofer/QgisODK/tree/master/pyxform/odk_validate <https://github.com/enricofer/QgisODK/tree/master/pyxform/odk_validate>
>     that came from a nother external foss project.
> 
>     Because everyone have to modify it's plugin to move to qgis3 => we
>     could leave proposal 1) for 2.x and proposal 2) for qgis3.0 giving
>     time to adapt the plugin to downloading binary from external repo.
> 
>     cheers
>     Luigi Pirelli
> 
> 
> 
> I've just checked on the plugins site where somebody (I believe Paolo)
> wrote a policy:
> 
> ...
> does not contain architecture-dependant binaries
> ...

... which in the two cases here (cython and java) shouldn't be triggered
because both are architecture independent.

> 
> 
> As I said, I'm in favour of a source-only policy, there are easy
> technical solutions to download binaries after installation if a plugin
> requires them and hosting on our plugin site binary blobs that we cannot
> inspect doesn't look a good idea to me.

If that doesn't sound like a good idea, I'm not sure it's better to
prefer a (silent) download of "some binaries" from "somewhere" in the net.
Just for reference, as far as I know, python wheels also allows
uploading pre-compiled binaries to their repo.
But I might also just be missing the point.

Matthias