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

[Akbar Gumbira]

>
> Wasn't that a requisite? If we are going to use git as a storage we need a
> git client (pure python seems to exist, could be used as a fallback in case
> git is not installed in the system) https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich .
>


> BTW: if you do not want to deal with git in this first task, you could
> used the zip endpoint, and assume that the metadata will be available at a
> known location in the remote http repo and just wget it.


Ok. I was just trying to find solution that could work out well without
having git (as from the last discussion with Martin, it's better to avoid
using git for now). I will try pygit2 and dulwich and I'll report you back
what I thought using those two.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 2016-06-08 9:21 GMT+02:00 Akbar Gumbira <akbargumbira at gmail.com>:
>
>> Yes, I have tried it. We can do it with sparse checkout, but, it requires
>> git on the client.
>>
>
>
> Wasn't that a requisite? If we are going to use git as a storage we need a
> git client (pure python seems to exist, could be used as a fallback in case
> git is not installed in the system) https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich .
>
> BTW: if you do not want to deal with git in this first task, you could
> used the zip endpoint, and assume that the metadata will be available at a
> known location in the remote http repo and just wget it.
>
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> 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>*
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alessandro Pasotti
>>> w3:   www.itopen.it
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *-------------------*
>> *Akbar Gumbira *
>> *www.akbargumbira.com <http://www.akbargumbira.com>*
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
> w3:   www.itopen.it
>



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