[QGIS-Developer] Discussing qgd files

[Andreas Neumann]

Hi Régis,

Thanks for asking Paul to see if the .qgd files can be created only "on 
demand" when necessary.

If there aren't any performance problems with .qgz in comparison with 
.qgs files, then I would be fine switching to the zipped version by default.

Andreas



On 05.03.2018 21:20, Régis Haubourg wrote:
> Hi Andreas,
> Good point indeed.
> In fact, the first implementations where created the database only 
> when needed and were also spatialite. It was slowing down a lot the 
> workflow, but now you raise the point, I think this was more linked to 
> the spatialite db creation time. I'll ask Paul if creating the sqlite 
> .qgd file can only be done when first required.
>
> Another point, we kept the qgz format optional, but I think that in 
> the end, we probably should discuss if this is not too complicated. We 
> could switch to qgz as default format, so that users see only one 
> file, don't get bothered with qgd or any associated file anymore.
> Thoughts?
> Régis
>
>
> 2018-03-05 16:03 GMT+01:00 Andreas Neumann <a.neumann at carto.net 
> <mailto:a.neumann at carto.net>>:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     In QGIS 3 there is always a qgd file created alongside with QGIS
>     projects. I heard that they are used as auxilliary file to store
>     project specific labels - right?
>
>     So far fine - but why are these files always created, even if the
>     file isn't used? Couldn't we create them on demand when they are
>     really needed? Currently, they are always created. I almost never
>     use this feature - yet these files are always created.
>
>     I would assume that these extra files are a source of confusion to
>     our users - and if the project is renamed - most likely they don't
>     know that this file belongs to the same project and should be
>     renamed as well - almost as bad as with shapefiles ...
>
>     Thanks for your thoughts on this matter,
>
>     Andreas
>
>
>
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