[Qgis-user] Public Repository for plugins...

[Sampson, David]

 Just as I am going through a pseudo code exercise of  release.py I see three cases.

1. Current and previous stable versions				VERSION
2. A Beta version is is being tested an on its way to stable.	BETA
3. An unstable snapshot of the development trunk			ALPHA

If we assume that most new feature development is done in the branches and merged to trunk, then trunk should not be all the harry and trashy. The branches would be way to unstable.

This way then regular users can try unstable and beta version of the plugins wihtout needing to get into SVN carnage.

For now I will call trunk snapshots BETA

Just some thoughts.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org 
> [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Borys Jurgiel
> Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 19:15
> To: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Public Repository for plugins...
> 
> Monday 08 of June 2009 22:03:47 Sampson, David napisał(a):
> > Maybe those that are interested can have a little thread 
> and come up 
> > with a temp solutions while the ducks line up...
> > 
> > I would propose sourceforge as that is what I know and I 
> already help 
> > admin a project on sourceforge.
> > 
> > I would say if we can get three plugin groups working 
> together that is 
> > a good start.
> > 
> > Any takers?
> 
> This is good idea.
> 
> The present state of multi-instance plugins I've tried to 
> explain in my previous post. In general, you can add to your 
> repository two instances of the same
> plugin:
> 
>   <pyqgis_plugin version="0.1" name="Foo Plugin" >
>     <description>Some description</description>
>     <homepage>http://foo</homepage>
>     <qgis_minimum_version>1.0</qgis_minimum_version>
>     <file_name>foo.zip</file_name>
>     <author_name>Someone</author_name>
>     <download_url>http://some_url/some_dir/foo.zip</download_url>
>   </pyqgis_plugin>
> 
>   <pyqgis_plugin version="0.2-beta" name="Foo Plugin" >
>     <description>Some description</description>
>     <homepage>http://foo</homepage>
>     <qgis_minimum_version>1.0</qgis_minimum_version>
>     <file_name>foo.zip</file_name>
>     <author_name>Someone</author_name>
>     <download_url>http://some_url/another_dir/foo.zip</download_url>
>     <experimental>true</experimental>
>   </pyqgis_plugin>
> 
> Note that there are two plugins foo.zip. The latter one has 
> higher version number, but is marked with the optional tag 
> <experimental>. It means, that will be chosen as the 'best 
> available' for all users allowing experimental plugins. 
> For those, who didn't enable experimental plugins, the former 
> plugin will be chosen. Similarly, you can publish one 
> instance for QGIS>=1.0 and another one for QGIS >=1.1 Just 
> remember to give a higher version for the latter one and 
> installer choose the highest one if the >=1.1 requirement is 
> fulfilled. 
> 
> Note that both files are named foo.zip, so you can't put them 
> together to the main contributed repository, as they all are 
> stored in one directory there. But you can use the suffix I 
> mentioned in my previous mail:
> 
> foo.zip      ----> containing the directory "foo"
> foo.beta.zip ----> containing the same directory "foo"
> 
> Oh, the main repository doesn't handle the 'experimental' tag 
> yet, AFAIK? But I hope it will be implemented soon.
> 
> Note that there are only two levels of stability: 
> <experimental> or not. It has been discussed whether we need 
> more and realized that just don't. Please remember that there 
> are so many authors with different opinions and different 
> willingness to keep metadata accurate ;) that I found keeping 
> it as simple as possible reallyu essential :) 
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