[Qgis-user] Fwd: qgis 1.8 on MAC: Problem with qwt and more

[Etienne Tourigny]

Is the value tool pluin popular enough to be included either as

- a builtin plugin - using matplotlib instead of pyqt
-part of the main app - in c++ and qwt, which does not cause problems anywhere

Etienne

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 5:07 AM, Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> On 07/21/2012 07:59 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote:
>>
>> Has Value tool been eliminated from Qgis? One thing is that it's not
>> a part of the core (which I thought it was as it is now in the panels menu
>> and
>> not in the plugins menu) and another is that is not part of QGIS.
>
>
> Hi Agustin,
>
> ValueTool has always been (en still is a python(!) plugin). It 'disappeared'
> from plugins menu because of a decision a while ago to put the different
> python plugins in more logical menu groups (so for ValueTool in the raster
> menu).
>
> ValueTool plugin itself is a plugin written by somebody who did not answer
> when there was a severe bug in it which made QGIS crash. We then decided to
> put the plugin in the new Plugin Infrastructure (site, sources and
> issuetracker). I did that, but to be honest I'm not so much in raster stuff
> myself, so am not suited as a main maintainer.
>
> As a main user (looking into the mail threads about valuetool :-) ) if you
> know somebody (or want to fund somebody) to fix/change things in ValueTool,
> please take the (organising) lead.
>
> Another option would be to port the plugin to c++, because if I read in this
> thread, apparently there is a compatibility/version issue with python qwt on
> mac platform?
>
> Another option would be to port the plugin to c++ (losing the PyQwt
> dependency). But here the same: as a heavy user, please organize resources.
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>
>
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