[Qgis-psc] Fwd: Re: [DHI-GRAS/processing_gpf] Code issues (#18)

[Tim Sutton]

Hi Paolo

Perhaps you can formulate a few options for us to consider. Personally I think asking people to just proved half their plugin in the repo and then the plugin pulling down a bunch of binary blobs from the internet when it starts is just an end-run around our 'plugins must ship as source' requirement. However it is not clear to me what a better solution is. Perhaps have another tag that we can assign to plugins as 'non-conformant' or something like that which indicates to the user that the plugin includes binary blobs which may or may not be security vulnerabilities or licensing issues?

Regards

Tim
> On 19 Dec 2016, at 1:38 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> Luigi has raised an important point. I'd ask PSC assistance in deciding
> the best route to deal with this.
> Thanks.
> 
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> If I understand correctly, the need to remove the .class file is because
> QGIS maintainers (currently?) do not want compiled code distributed with
> plugins.
> 
> Let us not invest too much time into BEAM support, but use this issue as
> extra leverage to push Brockmann to merge all their algorithms into SNAP.
> 
> I would prefer a simple note to the user to download the file from
> GitHub, maybe showing the exact location where they should place the file.
> 
> So not too much extra code in processing_gpf that we will need to remove
> e.g. when QGIS changes their policy (I see we are not the only ones with
> this issue).
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