[SoC] [Qgis-developer] Report 2 - QGIS Symbology Sharing Tools

[Akbar Gumbira]

Yes, I have tried it. We can do it with sparse checkout, but, it requires
git on the client.

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> 2016-06-08 9:10 GMT+02:00 Akbar Gumbira <akbargumbira at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi Akbar,
>>> The most flexible installation tool that I know is probably python pip.
>>> pip can install software from a zip file, from git and from other
>>> sources too.
>>> I'd suggest you to have a look to pip implementation of the install
>>> functionality, maybe there is some interesting for you.
>>
>> I just read pip code base. I think I can pick something from there for
>> downloading the resources. But the problem I have right now is to get only
>> the metadata file from the repository. Or are you suggesting that when
>> users add a repository connection, it also downloads the repository
>> directly?
>>
>
>
> If you are working on the git repos you can probably fetch just one file
> without cloning the whole repo, I did not test it but here are probably
> some pointers:
>
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2466735/how-to-checkout-only-one-file-from-git-repository
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1125476/retrieve-a-single-file-from-a-repository
>
>
>
>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 8:39 AM, Alessandro Pasotti <apasotti at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 2016-06-05 10:13 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:
>>>
>>>> On 05-06-16 09:02, Akbar Gumbira wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > *Are you blocked on anything?*
>>>> > ... In Github or Bitbucket they provide a direct link to
>>>> > the raw file. But I think I should look at more general approach
>>>> without
>>>> > manipulating the URL depending on the host. If you have some input, I
>>>> > would be happy to assess it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Akbar,
>>>>
>>>> I did some googling:
>>>>
>>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14405782/git-fetch-single-file-from-remote-repository-programatically
>>>> If you really want to keep it git, it looks like a shallow clone/copy is
>>>> the only way? That post also talks about some undocumented feature, but
>>>> I would not depend on that?
>>>>
>>>> Personally I would be ok when both Github and Gitlab/Gog would work (as
>>>> both a closed source and open source member of the git-web-world)...
>>>>
>>>> Or: a script running somewhere on our server, (shallow) cloning all
>>>> registred repositories periodically, and making just the metadata.txt
>>>> files available via http/webserver? (maybe giving us some time to check
>>>> the repo's on structure and (malicious?) content?
>>>>
>>>> Or else: a django app for the metadata...
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Richard
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Akbar,
>>>
>>> The most flexible installation tool that I know is probably python pip.
>>>
>>> pip can install software from a zip file, from git and from other
>>> sources too.
>>>
>>> I'd suggest you to have a look to pip implementation of the install
>>> functionality, maybe there is some interesting for you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alessandro Pasotti
>>> w3:   www.itopen.it
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> *-------------------*
>> *Akbar Gumbira *
>> *www.akbargumbira.com <http://www.akbargumbira.com>*
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Alessandro Pasotti
> w3:   www.itopen.it
>



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