[Qgis-developer] documents about writing a provider

[Gary Sherman]

I think using the OGR provider is also the right approach--it allows  
us to let someone else maintain the interface to MySQL :)

-gary
On Jul 4, 2007, at 9:04 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi Godofredo,
>
> This is good news! Afaik, nobody works at mysql support at the moment.
>
>> if not, where can I start and what could be better to write a  
>> provider
>> and a plugin for mysql or develop a plugin that works on top of ogr
>> provider?
>
> I would suggest to write a plugin for the gui and use the ogr  
> provider. Just
> because it is much work to write an own provider for mysql. And I  
> hoipe by
> using the ogr provider, it will also be possible to use your plugin  
> to access
> oracle spatial through ogr.
>
> Stephan Holl once wrote a plugin for accessing oracle through ogr.
> http://www.holl-land.de/blog/index.php/2006/12/23/oracle-plugin-for- 
> qgis/
>
> The plugin is probably not up to date with the newest changes in  
> qgis core.
> But it may be a good start point.
>
> And for plugin writing in general, there are the materials of my  
> foss4g2006
> workshop
> (http://www.foss4g2006.org/contributionDisplay.py? 
> contribId=50&sessionId=66&confId=1)
>
> Best regards,
> Marco
>
> On Wednesday 04 July 2007 18:20:58 godofredo contreras wrote:
>> Hi:
>>
>> I have a little free time and I want to spend it in something  
>> useful, I was
>> looking into summer coding ideas and I saw that there are an idea  
>> to write
>> a plugin for mysql, it sounds interesting. Are there somebody  
>> working on
>> it? if not, where can I start and what could be better to write a  
>> provider
>> and a plugin for mysql or develop a plugin that works on top of ogr
>> provider?.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Godofredo Contreras
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>
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> Dr. Marco Hugentobler
> Institute of Cartography
> ETH Zurich
> Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee
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