[QGIS-Developer] Understanding plugin management in QGIS - exposing QgsPluginRegistry to Python?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Sebastian,
thanks for your thoughts.

Il 15/03/20 22:31, Sebastian M. Ernst ha scritto:
> 
> Well, the bottom line is more efficiently tapping into pypi and conda
> packages. QGIS / OSGeo4W pretty much acts as a rather limited Python
> distribution. It's missing a lot of interesting scientific packages that
> currently see rapid development. Their distribution as part of QGIS /
> OSGeo4W would probably go much beyond the scope and resources of the
> QGIS project. If, on the other hand, QGIS was "simply" yet another
> C++-heavy Python package within a larger ecosystem, let's say Anaconda,
> this would add an interesting new perspective. I have been chasing the
> idea that QGIS plugins (more specifically their meta data) are lacking a
> lot of features of Python wheels or Conda packages. They really can not
> carry dependencies (other than dependencies to other plugins, added in
> QGIS 3.6 I believe). It's actually officially recommended to make Python
> dependencies part of QGIS plugins' distribution files (c & p), which can
> be a no-go for a number of good reasons. If you imagine that QGIS
> plugins are instead (or additionally) distributed as conda packages
> (with all of conda's package management features) while the entire thing
> remains manageable through a simple GUI, the QGIS plugin manager, I can
> see some interesting new use-cases and possibilities (especially for
> non-technical and Windows users). This is more or less the gist of my
> thinking.

having a proper way of managing plugin dependencies would be a huge
improvement, as this is one of the weakest points of our plugin management.
Cheers.
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Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu
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