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

[Akbar Gumbira]

>
> 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.

I just read pip code base. I think I can pick something from there for
downloading the resources. But the problem I have right now is to get only
the metadata file from the repository. Or are you suggesting that when
users add a repository connection, it also downloads the repository
directly?

On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> w3:   www.itopen.it
>



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