[Qgis-developer] In with the new, out with the old?

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi Carson

On Mon, 7 Mar 2011 18:16:23 +0000
Carson Farmer <carson.farmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> - Export/add geometry columns (this can now be done quite easily from
> the field calculator, and my version appears to have issues with
> certain vector formats)
Starting with r15381 Field calculator can extract X, Y and perimeter,
so I think this tool can be removed

> > BTW, I think now fTools could often avoid writing new shapefiles, just
> > adding the new info on the existing layer instead (e.g. points in
> > polygons, etc.).
> > Would this be hard?
> Not overly hard no, and there are really only a few tools that this
> would apply to.
>
> One thing I'd really like to do is add the capability to output other
> formats besides shapefiles (I'm not a big shapefile fan these days,
> field name limitations are a hassle). I might try move over the
> geometry and geoprocessing tools first, as they seem to be the most
> frequently used tools.

Maybe it is better to create in-memory layer and let user to save it in
some desired format using Save As... option from layer context menu?

-- 
Alexander Bruy