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

[Stefan Keller]

Hi,

12. Feb. 2019 02:44 Nathan Woodrow wrote:
> Personally I don't see any reason to not allow it in official repo and there is support for that here as IMO there
is nothing bad here and nothing should force people to work 100% on
all platforms all the time because that is
a hell of a lot of work that is hard even for skilled developers.

+1

But this discussion reminds me about an extension I'd like to propose:
As a user when searching and browsing for a plugin in QGIS extension
manager and on the website https://plugins.qgis.org/ , I'd like that
users be informed before hand about the dependencies and restrictions.

Actually Richard suggested already this to "add a big note in the
metadata.txt description that this plugin is only usable with vesper
and windows.". There are actually quite some plugins which require an
account to be usable.

So my suggestion is to add an optional field/entry/line in
metadata.txt called "Requirements" where dependencies and restrictions
are to be described. This entry would be mandatory if there exist such
requirements - and some dependencies and restrictions could
potentially even be validated automatically.

:Stefan

Am Di., 12. Feb. 2019 um 09:18 Uhr schrieb Luigi Pirelli <luipir at gmail.com>:
>
> Ho I see
>
> I do not see any limitation to have the plugin in the repo until third party and closed binaries are not distributed with the plugin as is the case for VESPER executables. Does it make sense to contribute to other communities (e.g. https://github.com/bsmurphy/PyKrige/issues/41) to open the implementation that is already public?
>
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> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 00:56, <Christina.Ratcliff at csiro.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Paulo,
>>
>> VESPER provides local block kriging. It has also been adopted as the method and tool of choice by the Precision Agriculture industry here in Australia.
>>
>> Further information on VESPER can be found at https://sydney.edu.au/agriculture/pal/software/vesper.shtml.
>>
>> Christina
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Paolo Cavallini
>> Sent: Friday, 8 February 2019 6:10 PM
>> To: qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On 07/02/19 08:46, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
>>
>> > That makes me think that perhaps the best win-win solution would have
>> > been to fix/improve QGIS's Kriging implementation instead of relying
>> > on a windows-only binary.
>>
>> Christina, what is missing fro our core kriging module?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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