[Qgis-developer] Proposal: Add Qwt as a soft dependency for GPS integration

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Tim

+1 for making Qwt a hard requirement.

Marco

Am Mittwoch, 6. Januar 2010 11.00:35 schrieb Tim Sutton:
> Hi All
> 
> Marco and I have been working on C++ based GPS integration into QGIS
> core. The work has been sponsored by Navigo (http://www.gonavigo.ca/).
> 
> There are two parts:
> 
> - a gps background process that communicates with a GPS and extracts
> nmea strings and then propogates them to any listing classes
> - a user interface, implemented as a dock panel that shows position,
> signal strength bar chart, satellite polar chart, options
> 
> Similarly to Martin's gps project, the gps ui can be used to capture
> features (and attributes using the normal attribute dialog mechanism).
> The ui part uses Qwt for the charting functions. I would like to
> propose that we add Qwt5 as a soft dependency. If it is not present,
> the GPS ui parts will not be built (the background process part will
> still be built. Could you please let us know if you are happy for the
> inclusion of this soft dependency - and the GPS code itself?
> 
> If on, the other hand, people are inclined to make Qwt a hard
> dependency, that would be good to because I can then replace the
> raster props dialog histogram with a better charting implementation.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 

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