[QGIS-Developer] QGIS plugin depends on pypi package

[John Lindsay]

Thank you for that. I don't think I would have every found that myself!




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Le 09/02/2024 à 00:45, John Lindsay via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
Hello,

I believe that I've solved my earlier issue with my QGIS plugin, which previously relied on a pip package. In order to avoid this dependency, I decided to include the Whitebox Workflows wheel in with my plugin. Unfortunately, however, this has increased the size of my plugin fairly substantially. The issue is that I need to included a wheel for each of the four supported operating systems and each are about 10MB. My plugin zip file is now a little less than 40MB. When I try to upload the new version to the QGIS plugin repo it is telling me that the file is too large. Does anyone know what the maximum size of a plugin zip file is? Thanks.

Presumably 25 MB if I trust https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/blob/master/qgis-app/plugins/validator.py#L20 .


(But in theory, my interpretation of https://plugins.qgis.org/publish/ "Don't include binaries" requirement is that you wouldn't be allowed to include binary wheels.. There seems however to be a discrepancy between that requirement and the actual practice since other plugins do that.)

Even

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