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

[Sampson, David]

For a community plugin repo I assume that multiple authors might be involved in the development of a plugin

For the element... <author_name>Someone</author_name>

Can this be a comman separated value.

I am thinking of automaticaly generating this from an AUTHORS.txt file

Also, is there an e-mail optio we can add or what about a URL to an AUTHORS file?

Cheers
> -----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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