Hi Akbar, Do you really need a flag? I think you can just check if the scheme is specified in the URI. If it's missing, assume the same protocol.
Cheers On 08/01/2016 11:35 AM, Akbar Gumbira wrote: > 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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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 > <mailto: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>* _______________________________________________ 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