mentaljam/qgsrepo

A simple QGIS repository generator written in Rust.

QgsRepo

A simple QGIS repository generator written in Rust.

A single binary that allows to generate a QGIS repository index XML file for a plugins directory by extracting metadata from plugins archives.

Usage

qgsrepo [OPTIONS] ROOT URL

Positional arguments:

root                  a directory containing plugin archives
url                   a repository url for the "download_url" entry

Optional arguments:

-h,--help             show this help message and exit
-o,--output OUTPUT    an output file name, default is "plugins.xml" in a
                      repository root
--no-icons            do not extract icons
--icons-dir ICONS_DIR a root subdirectory for icons, default is "icons"
-s,--strict           strict metadata check
-f,--force            rewrite an output file if exists
-v,--version          show version and exit

Building

1. Install the Rust compiler and Cargo
2. Clone sources: git clone [email protected]:mentaljam/qgsrepo.git
3. Enter the source directory: cd qgsrepo
4. Run cargo build command: cargo build --release

Packaging

Windows installer

After build run target\release\build_msi.bat (WiX toolset is required).

The latest windows installer package is available in the releases section.

Linux

On Linux systems QgsRepo can be installed with a snap package from The Ubuntu Store: sudo snap install qgsrepo.