<div dir="ltr">No pun intended, when you announced what you were going to do, I used MapInfo as my main GIS and Thuban as a viewer and I hoped very much you were starting something that was went further.<div>Since version 0.11 I was using QGIS as my "main" GIS. What I was saying is that the continuous improvement made all users rely on a dependable QGIS. Departing from a cautious approach to a very fast development pace means users can keep an LTR for day to day working (no advanced needs) and an "evolution" approach for the advanced features. I didn't think that saying "viewer" I diminished the huge effort of these years. The "viewer" approach is still a plus of QGIS and it's not something easy to accomplish if I see the work on Processing and what has been done for GRASS. I think being a "viewer" for GDAL means getting all of the benefits of an evolving project. This has its drawbacks, some processing that is needed at the feature level was available only on layers as a whole. I meant that, the last major version is a further step that asks for more dependability.</div><div>My apologies for all the developers who felt injured by my words.</div><div>c</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Tim Sutton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tim@kartoza.com" target="_blank">tim@kartoza.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi<br><div><span><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 03 Mar 2018, at 20:43, Jürgen E. Fischer <<a href="mailto:jef@norbit.de" target="_blank">jef@norbit.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-1216513339399676604m_7404748327285865291Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Hi,<br><br>On Sat, 03. Mar 2018 at 12:43:00 +0100, Carlo A. Bertelli (Charta s.r.l.) wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">but also abandoned the idea of QGIS as a simple viewer that acquires editing<br>abilities by plugins.<br></blockquote><br>Was that ever a goal? If so, I didn't know - but I have been around only for a<br>bit more than 10 years ;)<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>Yeah I think the idea of being a full fledged GIS rather than a simple viewer has been with us for many years already….glad to see it is really taking hold with 3.0 though :-) Great to have your inputs Carlo.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><span><br><br>Jürgen<br><br>-- <br>Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31<br>Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50<br>Software Engineer D-26506 Norden <a href="http://www.norbit.de" target="_blank">http://www.norbit.<wbr>de</a><br>QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode<br></span><span>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>QGIS-Developer mailing list<br><a href="mailto:QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org" target="_blank">QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org</a><br>List info: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailma<wbr>n/listinfo/qgis-developer</a><br>Unsubscribe: <a href="https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer" target="_blank">https://lists.osgeo.org/mailma<wbr>n/listinfo/qgis-developer</a></span></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-size:18px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"> </span><span><img id="m_-1216513339399676604m_7404748327285865291059E524A-2AE9-4A4E-B251-A4BE8C7B61E5" src="cid:B67F6A36-B856-4FD5-91BC-5BDE8990D373"></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:12px;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;line-height:normal;word-wrap:break-word"><div style="font-weight:normal"><br class="m_-1216513339399676604m_7404748327285865291Apple-interchange-newline">---</div><div style="font-weight:normal"><br></div><div><b>Tim Sutton</b></div><div style="font-weight:normal">QGIS Project Steering Committee Chair</div><div style="font-weight:normal"><a href="mailto:tim@qgis.org" target="_blank">tim@qgis.org</a></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div> </div></div>-- <br><div class="m_-1216513339399676604gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br>Carlo A. Bertelli<br> Charta servizi e sistemi per il territorio e la storia ambientale srl <br> Dipendenze del palazzo Doria, <br> vc. alla Chiesa della Maddalena 9/2 16124 Genova (Italy)<br> tel./fax +39(0)10 2475439 <a href="tel:010%20856%206195" value="+390108566195" target="_blank">+39 0108566195</a> mobile:<a href="tel:393%20159%200711" value="+393931590711" target="_blank">+39 393 1590711</a><br> e-mail: <a href="mailto:bertelli@chartasrl.eu" target="_blank">bertelli@chartasrl.eu</a> <a href="http://www.chartasrl.eu" target="_blank">http://www.chartasrl.eu</a><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br><br><br><br></div>
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