[QGIS-Developer] How to deal with QGIS plugins which install additional packages

[Greg Troxel]

John Stevenson - BGS via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org>
writes:

> Mergin Maps plugin also packages the dependencies (including the
> geodiff binary) into the plugin itself.  I’m not sure how it handles
> cross-platform differences, though.

Wow.  We really should not have binaries in plugins at all.   Beyond the
security issues, that can't possibly be portable.