Hi Matthias, I think I missed your point before. I think I will add a flag in the metadata that users need to put, to state whether the repository is using the same protocol as the metadata or not. This way it could be more portable to use the repository in different protocol. For example users can clone a repository from git and use that repository in the local without having to change the metadata file itself.
Cheers On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Akbar Gumbira <akbargumb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > >> I guess support for relative URLs should be trivial and make the >> repositories more portable. And as far as I can see it should be >> possible to have relative and absolute paths side-by-side, no? > > If it's a matter of portability, users can still put the metadata inside > the repository itself (if they put the repository in a directory based e.g > git/local file system). It's just that they need to explicitly put the > metadata URI in the settings when adding a repository. > > If users want to make a zip collections, they need to put the metadata > somewhere else outside the zip. I agree with Ale though that most users > probably prefer this, they can just put a zip and the metadata file in > dropbox or google drive for example. > > Cheers > > On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 10:56 AM, Matthias Kuhn <matth...@opengis.ch> > wrote: > >> Hi >> >> > In general, I feels that this is a better approach also in the sense >> > that "explicit is better than implicit", we provide explicit URIs >> > instead of delegate guessing them to the software layer. >> >> I guess support for relative URLs should be trivial and make the >> repositories more portable. And as far as I can see it should be >> possible to have relative and absolute paths side-by-side, no? >> >> Regards >> Matthias >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > > -- > > *-------------------* > *Akbar Gumbira * > *www.akbargumbira.com <http://www.akbargumbira.com>* > -- *-------------------* *Akbar Gumbira * *www.akbargumbira.com <http://www.akbargumbira.com>*
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