[QGIS-Developer] New QEP: Turning Plugin Management into Actual Package Management

[Sebastian M. Ernst]

Hi all,

please see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/179
for a proposal to add `pip` and `conda` support to QGIS, i.e. turning
the current plugin management into actual package management.

https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/issues/179

Following up on this earlier discussion, among others:

Am 16.03.20 um 19:56 schrieb Olivier Dalang:
> [...]
> I'd suggest drafting a QEP already, as adding support for pip/conda
> dependencies (which would be awesome !!) raises a few important
> questions (for example whether we have virtualenvs or similar on all
> systems, how plugins would declare their deps, how to deal with
> incompatible deps, or if we even go one step further and support
> distribution qgis plugin as pip packages, etc...). [...]
Best regards,
Sebastian