On 31-12-13 08:44, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > 2013/12/31 Bob and Deb <bobd...@gmail.com <mailto:bobd...@gmail.com>> > Maybe what is needed is a checkbox for programmer related plugins > such as Plugin Builder, Plugin Reloader, ScriptRunner and > HelloWorld? One another idea is to integrate HelloWorld into Plugin > Builder? > > yes, this is a solution, I feel that with over 6000 downloads it is > probably useful for somebody to study how a minimal plugin does work. > > But HelloWorld is also used as a test plugin for the plugin repository: > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Django/tree/master/qgis-app/plugins/tests/HelloWorld > > I collected a lot of HelloWorld versions that I use to test version > conflicts, metadata parsing, UTF8 support and a lot of other errors that > appeared in the past. > > But I'm fine to leave it unpublished, I can re-publish it when testing.
I second Alessandro that HelloWorld plugin has it's place, next to Plugin Builder. While HelloWorld is a really minimal plugin (as minimal as possible), really usefull to make your first plugin. The Plugin Builder is already pretty complex for a newby (because working with Makefile, translation, documentation etc etc). Both have there merits I think. As long as it is clear from the description that HelloWorld is a test/dev plugin without real purpose, I think it should be available to all. By the way, Alessandro the plugin isn't unpublished currently. Regards, Richard Duivenvoorde _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer