Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 8:29 AM wrote: > Hi All, > > > > Thank you for the lively debate. > > > > Just to answer the concerns regarding the VESPER exe. > > > > I am *not* distributing the VESPER exe with the plugin. > > > > There are instructions in the provided manual and on the github page on >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi Christina > On 07 Feb 2019, at 09:29, > wrote: > > Hi All, > > Thank you for the lively debate. > > Just to answer the concerns regarding the VESPER exe. > > I am not distributing the VESPER exe with the plugin. > > There are instructions in the provided manual and on the github

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Christina.Ratcliff
Hi All, Thank you for the lively debate. Just to answer the concerns regarding the VESPER exe. I am not distributing the VESPER exe with the plugin. There are instructions in the provided manual and on the github page on where to download VESPER and how to configure it for PAT on Windows. It

[QGIS-Developer] Fwd: Transifex: GitHub integration - announcing early access

2019-02-06 Thread matteo
Hi devs, sorry for cross-posting but I want to be be sure that all of you get this email. It seems that github-transifex have a direct integration. Don't really know how/if we can dig into this topic, but it is worth to mention ;) Cheers Matteo Forwarded Message Subject:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] NITF Metadata in QGIS

2019-02-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 00:56, C Hamilton wrote: > > I have a user that would like to have all the metadata from a NITF image > available in QGIS. It appears that QGIS does not read it even though I can > see it when I run gdalinfo in he OSGeo4W Shell. I haven't investigated this > too much but

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Accessing GRASS GIS addons from within QGIS

2019-02-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 01:41, Nikos Alexandris wrote: > 2) For the Processing Toolbox, my understanding is that it requires > significant effort to reflect the logic of a GRASS GIS module using > QGIS' Processing interface to GRASS GIS. Am I wrong? > > If I go for the Processing option, however,

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1412] GeoDataFarm approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin GeoDataFarm approval by pcav. The plugin version "[1412] GeoDataFarm 2.2.2" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/geodatafarm/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Andreas Neumann
Hi, I think 90% of the devs who stated their opinion in this thread are in favour of allowing plugins that work only on one single OS. Not because they like it particularly, but because they want to be pragmatic and inclusive. I think this is already a clear statement. We don't want to

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 16:21, Tim Sutton wrote: > Even in core QGIS we have platform exclusion stuff - can anyone *actually* > get grass algorithms to run on macOS? Solid burn Tim. (But justified) Nyall ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi all Frankly I am a little surprised at this thread. While I agree that we should encourage the development of cross platform plugins, I don’t ever recall us stating that it is a hard requirement, and it is not listed as such in the plugin requirements page[1]. If it is going to be a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 11:03, Nyall Dawson wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 00:03, Alexandre Neto wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I don't think that the supported platforms of a plugin should be a > > limitation for publishing it in the QGIS repository. If it's useful for a > > high number of users,

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 at 00:03, Alexandre Neto wrote: > > Hi, > > I don't think that the supported platforms of a plugin should be a limitation > for publishing it in the QGIS repository. If it's useful for a high number of > users, why not? > > To me the only important thing to do, is to inform

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Tackling Postgis layers connection recover

2019-02-06 Thread kimaidou
Here is the pull request kindly provided by Timothé https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/9107 Le mar. 5 févr. 2019 à 13:43, kimaidou a écrit : > +1000 Thanks for your help regarding this nasty issue > > Le mar. 5 févr. 2019 à 08:00, Paolo Cavallini a > écrit : > >> Agreed, a long standing

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Ale, On Wed, 06. Feb 2019 at 14:09:56 +0100, Alessandro Pasotti wrote: > I'm not a lawyer but I believe that you are breaking the law if you do not > run Apple software on Apple hardware. Like QGIS? No, that's not illegal ;) But running macOS on non-apple hardware is. Jürgen -- Jürgen

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Stefan On 2/6/19 6:03 PM, Stefan Steiger wrote: > > Yea, but I preferably don’t want to have to lookup a website for every > plugin if somebody gives me a list of plugins to install. > Luckily, the plugin manager can do that for us, just like pacman, yaourt, aptitude et al. Matthias

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Stefan Steiger
Yea, but I preferably don’t want to have to lookup a website for every plugin if somebody gives me a list of plugins to install. If you have plugins, there will generally be a few categories: 1) The ones that only use Python 2) The ones that use Python and custom python modules, or

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi On 2/6/19 5:28 PM, Stefan Steiger wrote: > >   > > The problem with metadata is that if you use it, you have no way to > easily know if something (a  group of plugins) uses a > platform-specific plugin. > >   > > For example, in ubuntu, I can choose: > > -  Official  (secure) > > - 

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Stefan Steiger
The problem with metadata is that if you use it, you have no way to easily know if something (a group of plugins) uses a platform-specific plugin. For example, in ubuntu, I can choose: - Official (secure) - Universe (insecure/half-legal) - Partner

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Alexander Bruy
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:04 PM Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > On 06/02/19 09:42, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > > > If you prefer to put it in QGIS repo: just add a big note in the > > metadata.txt description that this plugin is only usable with vesper and > > windows. And maybe do an OS check in

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread C Hamilton
I have been following this interesting discussion and thought I would make a couple of comments. I understand the different views people have. Ideally it would be nice for all plugins to work on all platforms, but I can see the benefit from certain plugins accessing external libraries that are not

[QGIS-Developer] Accessing GRASS GIS addons from within QGIS

2019-02-06 Thread Nikos Alexandris
Dear QGIS team, Dear GRASS GIS team, I kindly ask for some response on how to offer access to a GRASS GIS add-on through QGIS. I have asked again about this, months ago. Yet there are still technicalities for which I need help to understand. So, please bear with me and thank you in advance

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Stefan Steiger
Is it not possible to create two official repositories ? One for "all-platforms", one for "dirty/fishy/phony/dubious/in-progress" -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: QGIS-Developer [mailto:qgis-developer-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] Im Auftrag von Martin Dobias Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Februar

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1444] GeoDyn Gemeente approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin GeoDyn Gemeente approval by pcav. The plugin version "[1444] GeoDyn Gemeente 0.17 Experimental" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/GeodynGem/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info:

[QGIS-Developer] NITF Metadata in QGIS

2019-02-06 Thread C Hamilton
I have a user that would like to have all the metadata from a NITF image available in QGIS. It appears that QGIS does not read it even though I can see it when I run gdalinfo in he OSGeo4W Shell. I haven't investigated this too much but is image metadata completely ignored in QGIS or is it ignored

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Martin Dobias
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:04 PM Paolo Cavallini wrote: > > On 06/02/19 09:42, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > > > If you prefer to put it in QGIS repo: just add a big note in the > > metadata.txt description that this plugin is only usable with vesper and > > windows. And maybe do an OS check in

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Module not recognized in Python

2019-02-06 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 2/6/19 12:04 PM, Paul Riedel wrote: > Dear Devs. > > Kind of a help request here. Usually I would ask in a Discord or some > other chat program but there doesn't seem to be one? > I am trying to write a plugin to import Open Mining Format data into > QGIS(and maybe export it??) > Anyway, I

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Saber Razmjooei
Hi Axel, If you really want to test your plugin in macOS, you can sign up to one of the cloud based services, which offers you remote access to a macOS desktop. We use https://www.macincloud.com/ for QGIS macOS builds and their customer service is very good. Regards Saber On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 at

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Alexandre Neto
Hi, I don't think that the supported platforms of a plugin should be a limitation for publishing it in the QGIS repository. If it's useful for a high number of users, why not? To me the only important thing to do, is to inform the users of any OS restriction, so that people don't waste time

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Tom Chadwin
Matthias Kuhn  wrote > If it's a single-purpose use-case specific plugin which is > intended to be run inside a specific organization / scenario, then I > don't see the benefit of investing a lot of effort into something that > will never be used. By "effort", do you mean the work to make it

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Axel, There is the possibility to run continuous integration on various platforms on travis-ci and there are other continuous integration services as well. But I don't think you have the possibility to manually click through the user interface there and really need to setup unit / integration

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 1:59 PM Axel Andersson wrote: > On the subject, is there any possibility to test a plugin at another > platform? > > I'm developing my plugin on Windows machine and I have a Linux server, > which I can test the plugin on but when it comes to OSX I have no machine > to test

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Axel Andersson
On the subject, is there any possibility to test a plugin at another platform? I'm developing my plugin on Windows machine and I have a Linux server, which I can test the plugin on but when it comes to OSX I have no machine to test it on. Does anyone have experience/good cookbooks how to set up a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi On 2/6/19 12:47 PM, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > QGIS is for the users in the end, if this opens a new world of users, > and note this is government funded, I don't think we should avoid > allowing these kinds of things in.  This isn't a core feature of QGIS > and more of an exception than a rule. 

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Alessandro Pasotti
On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 7:28 AM wrote: > Hi QGIS dev list, > > I have just uploaded a new QGIS 2.18.x plugin called PAT - Precision > Agriculture Tools. It relies on VESPER, a Windows only bit of software so > therefore I went ahead writing a Windows only plugin using QGIS 2.18.x and > the

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Nathan Woodrow
QGIS is for the users in the end, if this opens a new world of users, and note this is government funded, I don't think we should avoid allowing these kinds of things in. This isn't a core feature of QGIS and more of an exception than a rule. I don't see most plugins going this route but the few

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Luigi Pirelli
Sorry if I¡m too superficial without knowing deeply the plugin use cases, this is my 2c: if VESPER kiging is the reason limitate the plugin to only windows, is something I do not understand. QGIS/processing with RSpatial, saga and grass are full of kiging interpolation methods why not use the

[QGIS-Developer] Module not recognized in Python

2019-02-06 Thread Paul Riedel
Dear Devs. Kind of a help request here. Usually I would ask in a Discord or some other chat program but there doesn't seem to be one? I am trying to write a plugin to import Open Mining Format data into QGIS(and maybe export it??) Anyway, I went through the process of setting up a new plugin

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi all, On 06/02/19 09:42, Richard Duivenvoorde wrote: > If you prefer to put it in QGIS repo: just add a big note in the > metadata.txt description that this plugin is only usable with vesper and > windows. And maybe do an OS check in the __init__ for illiterate users ;-) I respectfully

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1321] ClosestPoint approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin ClosestPoint approval by pcav. The plugin version "[1321] ClosestPoint 3.0.1 Experimental" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/ClosestPoint/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info:

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1631] PAT - Precision Agriculture Tools approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin PAT - Precision Agriculture Tools approval by NathanW. The plugin version "[1631] PAT - Precision Agriculture Tools 0.1.0 Experimental" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/pat/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1616] Hqgis approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin Hqgis approval by pcav. The plugin version "[1616] Hqgis 0.3.6 Experimental" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Hqgis/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Redmine flaky?

2019-02-06 Thread Tom Chadwin
Nyall Dawson wrote >> Is anyone else seeing this? Not on Github, no. Heh. Tom - Buy Pie Spy: Adventures in British pastry 2010-11 on Amazon -- Sent from: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-Developer-f4099106.html ___ QGIS-Developer

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Windows only version of a QGIS 2.18x plugin

2019-02-06 Thread Richard Duivenvoorde
On 2/6/19 7:28 AM, christina.ratcl...@csiro.au wrote: > Hi QGIS dev list, >   > I have just uploaded a new QGIS 2.18.x plugin called PAT - Precision > Agriculture Tools.  It relies on VESPER,  a Windows only bit of software > so therefore I went ahead writing a Windows only plugin using QGIS >

[QGIS-Developer] Plugin [1531] Label2Attr approval notification.

2019-02-06 Thread noreply
Plugin Label2Attr approval by pcav. The plugin version "[1531] Label2Attr 1.0" is now approved Link: http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Label2Attr/ ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: