[Qgis-developer] Report 2 - QGIS Symbology Sharing Tools

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2016-06-05 10:13 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:

> On 05-06-16 09:02, Akbar Gumbira wrote:
>
> > *Are you blocked on anything?*
> > ... In Github or Bitbucket they provide a direct link to
> > the raw file. But I think I should look at more general approach without
> > manipulating the URL depending on the host. If you have some input, I
> > would be happy to assess it.
>
> Thanks Akbar,
>
> I did some googling:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14405782/git-fetch-single-file-from-remote-repository-programatically
> If you really want to keep it git, it looks like a shallow clone/copy is
> the only way? That post also talks about some undocumented feature, but
> I would not depend on that?
>
> Personally I would be ok when both Github and Gitlab/Gog would work (as
> both a closed source and open source member of the git-web-world)...
>
> Or: a script running somewhere on our server, (shallow) cloning all
> registred repositories periodically, and making just the metadata.txt
> files available via http/webserver? (maybe giving us some time to check
> the repo's on structure and (malicious?) content?
>
> Or else: a django app for the metadata...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard
>
>
>

Hi Akbar,

The most flexible installation tool that I know is probably python pip.

pip can install software from a zip file, from git and from other sources
too.

I'd suggest you to have a look to pip implementation of the install
functionality, maybe there is some interesting for you.



-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
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