towards qgis 1.0 (was:Re: [Qgis-developer] Re: composer redesign branch)

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

2008/2/13, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> Tim Sutton ha scritto:
>
> > Martins python bindings in play. GRASS is problematic in this case in
> > that it is a) incredibly difficult to package an application that
> > makes use of some GIS functionality and then have to resolve all the
> > packaging issues of bundling GRASS with it too, and b) the model of
> > importing and exporting data to and from GRASS in order to perform
> > analysis is onerous. There are many other reasons why I think its good
> > for us to embark on implementing our own geoprocessing functionality
> > (on top of GEOS etc where appropriate).
>
> I generally agree with you. Please note, however, that converting vector
> data into grass format is not always necessary, thanks to v.external. I
> understand next grass should be able to do the same also with raster
> (sort of r.external).
> But of course having at least some geoprocessing would be nice, just do
> not stop the path towards 1.0 because of this...

These are all post 1.0 release considerations...

Regards

Tim

> All the best.
> pc
> --
> Paolo Cavallini, see: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>


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