[Qgis-user] plugin installation

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

"perturbation", mmm had to look up this one

since we are cleaning up these perturbations ;-), I thought to add a 
small refinement.
What about the idea that we all add a file 'version.txt' into the root 
of the zip. Is it possible for the repository (and so for the python 
plugin-installer) to serve that from the zip when people ask for it 
like: http://spatialserver.net/pyqgis/plugins/mapserver_export.zip?version
or something like that?
In that way we can put some plugin details and version information in it 
(a little more verbose then we do in the 'description'-field now. I'm 
really missing this more verbose version information when stuff is not 
working, and I want to know IF there is a newer version available, and 
what is fixed in that one...)
On the upload of a plugin we can check for the existence of that file, 
like we check the zip now isn't it?

Another idea-balloon (sorry if I'm firing to much idea's): what if we 
ask maintainers of plugins to add a blog-item for every plugin. In that 
way as a maintainer you can give some more information (screendumps) 
about it, and other people can add comments on it, adding idea's patches 
or help?

By the way, I really think the plugin concept is doing great!

Grtz Richard Duivenvoorde


example version.txt:
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MAINTAINER(s)
Richard Duivenvoorde (richard at duif.net)

DESCRIPTION
Generates a html image map (image+html) from a given polygon layer.
Working for at least shapefiles and postgis tables
bla bla

TODO
- when it's possible to do buffering, add functionality for points and lines
- or let it work together with the geoprocessing plugin

VERSIONS
0.2
fixed some bugs, now working for postgres also
bug: abcde
bug: fixed this one

0.1
first try. Working for shapefiles

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Gary Sherman wrote:
> On Mar 6, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Martin Dobias wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:57 AM, Gary Sherman <sherman at mrcc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Martin Dobias wrote:
>>>
>>>> Now I've found out that the problem is due to incorrect creation of
>>>> directories - in some cases zip files, directories are not listed (in
>>>> that case we create only top-level dir which leads to the problem with
>>>> subdirectories).
>>>>
>>>> Fixed in trunk in r8191 but users of prebuilt packages will have to
>>>> unpack the plugin manually.
>>>>
>>> The version prior to r8191 worked and was not the cause of the issue
>>> in this thread. The problem is that the fix has not made it into a
>>> released version yet.
>>
>> Actually, I had the same error in my fresh svn trunk checkout so I
>> doubt that it was working ... were you able to install html_imagemap?
>> That .zip file doesn't list the directories, only files. So only the
>> top level directory was created which resulted in an error since that
>> .zip contains also some more subdirs which were not created.
> Well then it was just another perturbation that hadn't been accounted 
> for yet. Hopefully the latest changes will cover all the bases....
> -gary
> 
>>
>> Martin
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