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g-sherman / plugin_build_tool

Python command line tool for compiling and deploying QGIS plugins
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Allow to exclude files and subfolders from deploying #5

Open jakimowb opened 6 years ago

jakimowb commented 6 years ago

Not all files stored in the source code repository might be required to be in the deployed plugin, e.g. some resources compiled into the resource.py or svg vector files from which png icons are created.

It would be great if the pb_tool.cfg allows to exclude files and folder like in a .gitignore file (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore):

[files] excluded_files: *.svg *.pyc .hidden/trees/ visible/trees/

g-sherman commented 6 years ago

pb_tool only copies files that are specified in the pb_tool.cfg file.

jakimowb commented 6 years ago

The extra_dirs: keyword allows to copy entire folder structures, This is a great, as it allows to use pb_tool also for larger projects, but it does not allow to exclude e.g. temporary files like *.pyc: 

extra_dirs:
    subproject_A
    subproject_B
    icons

In this case it becomes complicated to maintain a potentially long list of single file paths using the "extras:" keyword only (like the set of icons stored in folder \icons). That's why I think it would be very helpful to support a wildcard syntax to exclude or include specific files or file types.

alessioarena commented 4 years ago

Definitely a thumb up for this request. If you have a git repository in a subfolder that you need to deploy with the plugin, this often causes "Access is denied" errors and they are not needed anyway