[QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

[Nyall Dawson]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at 16:29, <Christina.Ratcliff at csiro.au> wrote:

> On uploading to the QGIS repository I have been advised by @pcav (see https://github.com/CSIRO-Precision-Agriculture/PAT_QGIS_Plugin/issues/7 ) that PAT must support Linux and OSX operating environments. I have had a look on https://plugins.qgis.org/ and I cannot find where this is listed in bullet points under how to add your plugin to this repository as a requirement for the approval of plugins. @pcav advised that I email this list regarding this issue.

*snip*

Don't we have other tools in the repo which are dependant on
platform-specific binaries? E.g.  "Cuda Raster" is linux only.

Nyall


>
> Is it acceptable to add a line in the metadata.txt file clearly pointing out that this plugin is to be used in Windows only and will it still be approved for the QGIS plugin repository?
>
> If not what are my options?
> Are there any guides on how to best setup and test QGIS plugins for Linux and OSX environments? I only have access to Windows at the moment and I am a novice at Python programming in these other environments.
>
> Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Christina Ratcliff
>
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