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

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2016-06-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Akbar Gumbira <akbargumbira at gmail.com>:

> 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?
>


If you are working on the git repos you can probably fetch just one file
without cloning the whole repo, I did not test it but here are probably
some pointers:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2466735/how-to-checkout-only-one-file-from-git-repository
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/retrieve-a-single-file-from-a-repository




>
> 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
>>
>
>
>
> --
>
> *-------------------*
> *Akbar Gumbira *
> *www.akbargumbira.com <http://www.akbargumbira.com>*
>



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Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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