How to release a plugin to QCAD users

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ciri
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How to release a plugin to QCAD users

Post by ciri » Sat Mar 05, 2016 2:43 pm

Hi all.

I wrote a script for QCAD that provide a particular type of drawing.
Then I needed to implement an algorithm that performs a quite large amount of computations, so (suggested by the documentation) I moved to C++ classes, compiling them into a library. All is going quite good.

My question is, which is the easiest way to make the plugin available to a QCAD user?

Thank you :)

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andrew
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Re: How to release a plugin to QCAD users

Post by andrew » Tue Mar 08, 2016 3:31 pm

Generally speaking, the end user needs to save the plugin file into their plugins folder of their QCAD installation.

Depending on your specific user base and requirements, you might want to offer complete QCAD packages to your customers containing either
- the QCAD Community Edition bundled with your plugin (if your plugin does not depend on QCAD Professional)
- QCAD Professional bundled with your plugin. In this case you'd essentially become a reseller of QCAD Professional and sell QCAD Professional licenses + your plugin.

Perhaps you can provide some more information about the nature of the plugin?

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