[QGIS-Developer] What to do with evis?

[Tim Sutton]

+1 from me to remove Evis (I nearly wrote Elvis hahah…..but I guess he was already removed).



> On 14 May 2019, at 09:04, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nyall,
> fully agreed.
> Thanks.
> 
> On 14/05/19 09:21, Alexander Bruy wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> +1 to remove eVis.
>> 
>> вт, 14 трав. 2019 о 02:23 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> пише:
>>> 
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> With Denis' recent PR adding native support for browsing
>>> features/tables  (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/9992), I think
>>> it's a good time to open discussion about the future of the evis
>>> plugin.
>>> 
>>> In my understanding, browsing tables was one of the remaining
>>> compelling features which evis offered, and if we have a native
>>> integrated support for this then I doubt there's a good reason to keep
>>> dragging around the evis baggage with us.
>>> 
>>> My 2c:
>>> 
>>> - The plugin is well and truly abandoned and unmaintained. It's only
>>> seen fixes to keep it compiling for the last 5+ years. There's
>>> obviously no demand from the user or development community to extend
>>> this plugin. This either means the plugin is unused, or it's "feature
>>> complete". My gut feeling is the former, or we'd at least be seeing
>>> bug reports still flow in.
>>> 
>>> - It's a substantial amount of code, and it does require work to keep
>>> it functional. If this work isn't needed, we're just wasting our time
>>> 
>>> - It's a core c++ plugin, which we are trying to reduce. Again,
>>> there's been no movement from anyone I know of to port this to a
>>> not-installed-by-default python plugin (which is where it really
>>> belongs)
>>> 
>>> If I'm not the only one thinking evis has reached it's eol, I would propose we:
>>> 
>>> - Add a messagebar warning when the plugin is enabled/loaded on QGIS
>>> 3.8, stating that it is deprecated and will be removed in QGIS 3.10.
>>> 
>>> - Link this message to a QGIS blog post detailing the reason for
>>> removal, which can clearly state that if users require the
>>> functionality they should contact the QGIS project to discuss funding
>>> a community maintained, Python version of the plugin
>>> 
>>> - Remove it in 3.10.
>>> 
>>> Thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Nyall
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