[GRASS-dev] Modules

[Paolo Cavallini]

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I must add:
- - grass already forces users to install additional programs (eg gdal,
proj, and many others), but this historically helped grass growing,
enlarging the developers base
- - it is very easy adding grass commands to qgis (we have done it, and
will submit them for the new qgis version)
- - your cautions about Qt are reasonable, and I'm very much concerned
about this (this is the reason I prefer Debian over suse and redhat, for
instance); however, many large projects are based on it, and it seems
likely that in case Trolltech will change the licence, the community may
be able to take over.
All the best.
pc

Brad Douglas ha scritto:
> On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 20:36 +0100, Maciej Sieczka wrote:
>>> I would only support this if GRASS and QGIS were merged.
>> As you propably know, the merge is partially done, on the QGIS side. It
>> has the GRASS Plugin, which already provides many GRASS commands in a
>> modern GUI, and the QGIS's own shell for running GRASS commands from
>> CLI on any platform. This QGIS makes quite a complete (to be,  ;)  )
>> GRASS GUI + access to GRASS core functionality.
> 
> I meant merging both projects into a single project.
> 
>>> Glynn also mentioned that in order to do what we want on Windows,
>>> one would have to purchase a QT license, which is not feasible, IMO.
>> This is not an issue in QT 4, which QGIS currently uses.
> 
> And who's to say that TrollTech won't make future versions of QT
> unusable (licensing), locking us into QT 4?
> 
> I find any OSS project that bases their core around a commercial
> development kit suspect at best.  QGIS has locked themselves into the
> mercy of TrollTech.
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Paolo Cavallini
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