<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Dec 2017, at 06:40, Nyall Dawson <<a href="mailto:nyall.dawson@gmail.com" class="">nyall.dawson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Hi all,<br class=""><br class="">Just wondering... before 3.0 launch, should we remove<br class="">QgsProject.instance() from the Python bindings, in favour of something<br class="">like iface.activeProject()?<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>+1 That sounds much more intuitive to me.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Regards</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Tim</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Sometime in the future (4.0?) we'll end up killing<br class="">QgsProject.instance(), but in the meantime is it a good move to push<br class="">people away from relying on this method?<br class=""><br class="">I'd say yes, given that the 2.x -> 3.0 api break is so huge anyway and<br class="">will generally result in substantial plugin rewriting (vs just<br class="">modifying a few methods), maybe we're better off to get PyQGIS<br class="">developers to deal with this now and factor it into their new<br class="">designs?*<br class=""><br class="">Nyall<br class=""><br class="">* based on the belief that 3.x -> 4.0 will be a gentler transition!!<br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">QGIS-Developer mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" class="">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br class="">List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer<br class="">Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer</div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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