Good idea Martin.<div><br></div><div>I had the a thought the other day that it would be good to be able to list the dependencies of the plugin in there too.</div><div>This list would have to be hand maintained but the author . The plugin installer would then be able to see before trying to install what the package needs to run correctly.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just a thought.</div><div><br></div><div>- Nathan</div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Martin Dobias <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wonder.sk@gmail.com">wonder.sk@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Hi all<br>
<br>
just want to let you know about a recent addition in master branch: I<br>
have introduced the possibility to put plugin's metadata to a text<br>
file (metadata.txt).<br>
<br>
Until now plugins' metadata were always retrieved from __init__.py by<br>
calling python methods. Reading metadata from a text file has the<br>
advantage of not requiring to load the plugin code and can be done by<br>
plugin repository.<br>
<br>
Metadata in metadata.txt is preferred to the methods in __init__.py -<br>
if the text file is present, it is used to fetch the values. Backward<br>
compatibility is preserved - all existing plugins will continue to<br>
work. From QGIS 2.0 the metadata from __init__.py will not be accepted<br>
- the metadata.txt file will be required.<br>
<br>
Plugin metadata should be in INI file format, recognized by python's<br>
ConfigParser module and by Qt's QSettings class.<br>
<br>
All currently used metadata should be in [general] section. Example use:<br>
<br>
[general]<br>
name=PostGIS manager<br>
description=Manage your PostGIS database<br>
version=Version 0.5.15<br>
icon=icons/postgis_elephant.png<br>
qgisMinimumVersion=1.0.0<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Martin<br>
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