On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 12:04 PM Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> 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 the __init__ for illiterate users ;-) > > I respectfully disagree with that: at the very core of the QGIS project > it stands the idea of letting everybody use the best possible GIS, > without discrimination. This kind of approach would in fact favour > Windows users.
I strongly disagree with such discrimination based on the supported OS. In the most cases this is because some tools/libraries existis only for one or two platforms and plugin author can not change situation and have a choice to develop and publish plugin for one OS, or do nothing. There are quite a few plugins in the repo for very specific tasks like converting local data formats, plugins with non-English UI, plugins which does not work on all platforms, we even have plugins which make it easier/encourage users to violate TOS of some basemaps providers (and even tagged it as featured)... Rules should be equal for all. _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
