Thanks for your recommendations, with that in mind I'll go for the
option 2, shipping the 3rd party package with the plugin.
Till now I did that including the whl-file, but after looking at your
plugins I see the advantage of your code of adding the directory which
contains the library to sys.path and then doing an import (see
https://github.com/NationalSecurityAgency/qgis-datetimetools-plugin/blob/master/__init__.py)
On 21/7/22 19:33, C Hamilton wrote:
Generally speaking it is not recommended, but I have done it with
several of my plugins (KML Tools, Date/Time Tools). If your python
package is OS dependent (not pure python) then you don't want to include
it with your plugin. My Density Analysis plugin can use the optional H3
library (which I think might be worthwhile for QGIS to include as a part
of its libraries), but it is machine dependent so I did not include it.
It is not ideal to have users pip install the library, but you have to
weigh the costs vs. the benefits of using some library.
Good luck!
On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 1:19 PM Gerald Kogler via QGIS-Developer
<qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org <mailto:qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org>>
wrote:
I'm actually developing a QGIS plugin which depends on pysftp
package to
upload files to a server. For now I thought on asking users to install
it manually, but it would be great to automatize the installation
process.
So the options I see would be:
1. Install external package using pip from inside the plugin.
2. Include and ship external package with the plugin.
3. Ask user to install it manually using pip install.
Is there a recommended way to handle this situation?
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