[Qgis-developer] Official Plugin candidates

[John C. Tull]

Barry,

What is the working repo url for your plugins? I'm getting a failure  
to connect with the old repo link from the wiki:
http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings/Qgis/Plugins/plugins.xml

Thanks,
John

On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote:

> 2008/12/31 Borys Jurgiel <borys at wolf.most.org.pl>:
>
>> - their authors are still 'alive'
>
> just about! (*cough cough*)
>
>> The next 4 aren't GPL licensed, but I would see them in the  
>> offcicial Repo if their
>> Authors agreed to release them on a free license:
>
>> - Click Fu (by Barry)
>> - Raster Algebra (by Barry, not completely rewritten yet!)
>> - Select Plus (by Barry)
>
> I will stick a LICENSE file in the plugin's folders real soon, making
> them GPL. Actually on the Google code page it states they are GPL, but
> GPL requires a copy of the LICENSE in there, so I'll get onto that.
>
> Some comments though:
>
> * Click Fu is happily pretty complete. Maybe it needs some
> documentation. Otherwise it's good to go.
>
> * Raster Algebra will soon be overtaken by RasterLang. It's a simple
> prefix-notation language (a bit like LISP) for raster manipulation. So
> you can do stuff like (/ dem1 1000) to scale a DEM, or (+ (band img1
> 1) (band img1 2)) to add two bands from a raster image. It is
> intentionally quite simple, and doesn't let you do more than one
> expression at a time - if you want to do something more complex then
> the recommendation is to do it at the python prompt. This plugin just
> gives you a simple way to do simple expressions. I'd like to rewrite
> the parser to make the language more like python but kept this way
> it's been quite easy to deal with (but requires the pyparsing module).
> Currently the parser works, it can evaluate expressions, I just need
> to hook it into Qgis properly for reading and writing rasters. It
> should be quite easy to extend with new operators.
>
> * SelectPlus has a big problem in that I wasn't aware that some
> layers (GRASS) didn't allow random-access selections, and you have to
> loop through features and select sequentially. Graargh. Plus it has
> problems with projections when circles aren't circles and straight
> lines aren't straight lines. These things can be fixed but I'd see a
> lot of people going "I can't select my grass layer points with a
> polygon" until it's fixed.
>
> Plugin code is all heaped here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/bsrplugins/source/browse/#svn/trunk
>
> if anyone wants to submit patches or want write-access...
>
> Barry
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