[QGIS-Developer] [Qgis-developer] OTB and LiDAR tools as separate plugins

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Martin,

It is up to you how to distribute your plugin. You can publish it in
QGIS Official
plugins repository, or setup your own repository as many other developers do.
It is even possible to share just a ZIP with the plugin via web-site,
pretty much
similar to how LAStools distributed.

чт, 23 серп. 2018 о 13:06 Martin Isenburg <martin.isenburg at gmail.com> пише:
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> Hello Alex,
>
> all the python code is pretty much written. Victor even did some kind of port already.
>
> https://github.com/volaya/qgis-lidartools-plugin
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> But I am struggling with how to add this code as a plugin such it can be searched for. Maybe I should provide it as a zip package ("Install from ZIP") rather than make it a plugin that can be queried from QGIS. I have heard that some people are not happy with the LAStools binding scripts being hosted on the official QGIS site as LAStools is not entirely open source. The initial attempt of bundling the binaries with the scripts as you can find it here:
>
> https://github.com/volaya/qgis-lidartools-plugin/tree/master/lidartools/bin/lastools
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> will also need to change back to how it used to be ("setup the PATH to the LAStools and - if needed to Wine") as the binaries of LAStools change too often to have them inside the processing python bindings which almost never change.
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> I was looking for documentation on how to prepare such an external plugin so users can load it into QGIS - either online or as a ZIP.
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 23, 2018 at 11:42 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> there are a lot of Processing providers which are not part of the QGIS
>> core. You can easily find
>> some of them in the QGIS Plugin repository by "Processing" keyword.
>> Also in QGIS sources
>> there is an example provider which can be used as staring point, see
>> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/tree/master/python/plugins/processing/algs/exampleprovider.
>>
>> чт, 23 серп. 2018 о 12:19 Martin Isenburg <martin.isenburg at gmail.com> пише:
>> >
>> > Hello from Zanzibar,
>> >
>> > In the next three days I'd like to tackle recreating the LAStools toolbox the way it was available in QGIS 2.4 through 2.18 to also in QGIS 3.2. Is there a guide / example that I can follow to provide the LiDAR tools provider as a separate plugin as we've discussed it previously? Has anyone else created such a processing plugin that is residing outside of QGIS who is / will come to Tanzania?
>> >
>> > Regards.
>> >
>> > Martin
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Bruy
>
>


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Alexander Bruy