[Qgis-developer] standard way for custom plugin python dependencies

[Tom Kralidis]

Jachym: fwiw request is included in master and release-2_16 branches respectively [1].

Having said this, a more streamlined approach to plugin management in QGIS
would make things much easier for long term support across distributions.

..Tom

[1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/python/ext-libs

On Thu, 22 Sep 2016, Luigi Pirelli wrote:

> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 17:01:51 +0200
> From: Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com>
> To: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com>
> Cc: "qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org" <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-developer] standard way for custom plugin python
>     dependencies
> 
> why not package critical/missing dep with the plugin itself? import
> from local egg only if not present in the installation.
> Luigi Pirelli
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> On 22 September 2016 at 14:08, Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> we've developed an (python) plugin for QGIS, which is somehow using (among
>> others) nice "requests" python library. We use it the standard way
>>
>> import requests
>>
>> But when we distributed the plugin to other computers, it turned out, they
>> do not have it installed.
>>
>> Is there any standard way, how to distribute dependencies along with python
>> plugin? Something in metadata.txt? Some requirements file?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Jachym
>>
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