[Qgis-developer] QGIS D3 DataVis Plugin Status Report

[Alessandro Pasotti]

Calvin,

Did you consider that if the library is pure Python (no binaries) and there
are no licensing issues, it can be easily packaged and shipped within the
plugin?

This approach is currently used by many plugins (GeoServer explorer is one
of those).

Il 01/ott/2016 21:11, "C Hamilton" <adenaculture at gmail.com> ha scritto:

> Paolo,
>
> Sorry for a repeat but I forgot to do a reply all to include
> qgis-developer.
>
> I have no problem installing plotly. For me it is straight forward. My
> concern is will QGIS then be shipped with plotly or can plotly be combined
> with the plugin itself. My concern is for the end user. For many installing
> an extra package in order to run a plugin would simply mean it doesn't get
> used. I like the work that Matteo and colleagues have done but because it
> is based on plotly, then plotly needs to be a part of the QGIS distribution
> or be distributed as a part of the plugin if we are going to take that
> approach.
>
> I would be interested in helping out their efforts because it matches some
> of the analysis needs that I am trying to solve. Based on my concerns can
> you tell me whether we can use plotly or do we need to use a different D3
> library? Are their any licensing problems in using it? If there are no
> problems with it then I will start digging into it and reading through the
> DataPlot code.
>
> What do you mean by the work of Juergen?
>
> Thanks.
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Il 30/09/2016 20:58, C Hamilton ha scritto:
>>
>> > My main concern is it is dependent upon a python library that is not a
>> > part of the QGIS distribution.
>>
>> In principle this is not a big issue: packages can be added to osgeo4w
>> (I assume you're talking about Windows, because in Linux installing it
>> should be straightforward). It's just a matter of resources: you could
>> either learn how to do it, or support the excellent work by Juergen.
>> This may benefit others.
>> All the best, and thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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