[QGIS-Developer] Adding "Requirements" as optional field/entry/line in metadata.txt

[DelazJ]

Hi,

Stefan, you might want to join the discussion at
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/9619

Regards,
Harrissou

Le dim. 31 mars 2019 à 18:44, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Ciao Paolo
>
> Thanks for replying.
> I've opened this ticket https://issues.qgis.org/issues/21715 .
> I'm sorry not being able to promise help. I'm focusing my time on QGIS
> Vector Tiles Reader plugin, QGIS bug reporting and providing
> educational material for QGIS like OpenSchoolMaps (see English version
> of worksheets [1]).
>
> :Stefan
>
> [1] https://openschoolmaps.ch/pages/materialien.html
>
>
> Am So., 31. März 2019 um 17:10 Uhr schrieb Paolo Cavallini
> <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> >
> > Agreed, thanks. I suspect there is already a suggestion for this, could
> > you please check and open a ticket if not?
> > Would you be available helping us to implement it?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > On 31/03/19 15:22, Tom Kralidis wrote:
> > > Good idea. Perhaps listing actual Python requirements or pointing to /
> assessing a requirements.txt type file is pushing it?
> > >
> > > ..Tom
> > >
> > > Sent from my iPhone
> > >
> > >> On Mar 31, 2019, at 08:49, Stefan Keller <sfkeller at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Hi
> > >>
> > >> As a user when searching and browsing for a plugin in QGIS extension
> > >> manager or on the website https://plugins.qgis.org/ , I think users
> > >> should be informed before hand about the requirements, dependencies
> > >> and restrictions of a plugin.
> > >>
> > >> These are possible requirements, dependencies and restrictions which
> > >> come to my mind: The plugin...
> > >> * is running only on one platform
> > >> * is depending on some other SW to be installed separately (because
> > >> it's not included in the QGIS installation),
> > >> * requires some registration or account.
> > >>
> > >> My suggestion is to add an optional field/entry/line in metadata.txt
> > >> called "Requirements" where requirements, dependencies and
> > >> restrictions are to be described.
> > >>
> > >> This entry would be mandatory if there exist such requirements. Some
> > >> dependencies and restrictions could potentially even be potentially
> > >> validated automatically.
> > >>
> > >> :Stefan
> > >>
> > >> P.S. I actually also thought about adding a "spatial extends"
> > >> attribute in metadata.txt in order to indicate that this plugin only
> > >> works for some specific countries or regions. But for now I'd just
> > >> prefer that the chapter "Recommendations" on
> > >> https://plugins.qgis.org/publish/ is being extended to mention that
> > >> spatial limitations to be mentioned in the plugin description!
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