[Qgis-developer] SEXTANTE and core plugins

Tim Sutton lists at linfiniti.com
Mon Aug 6 14:49:20 PDT 2012


Hi

On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
> Interesting topic. I think we should try to replicate those
> functionalities and when they are fully supported in SEXTANTE, maybe
> remove them in their original form.
>

+1 - lets get rid of any duplicated stuff, consolidate things and
generally tidy house for the 2.0 release


> Something that can be done while that happens is to wrap those
> algorithms that are a bit harder to adapt to SEXTANTE, wrapping them
> as SEXTANTE actions. That would mean that the algorithm can be called
> from the SEXTANTE toolbox, but it is not really a SEXTANTE algorithm,
> just an action that calls the original algorithm with its dialog. That
> means also it cannot be executed in the modeler or batch processing
> interface, but at least all analysis stuff would be centralized in the
> toolbox. In short, changing the way of calling those algorithms, from
> a menu item to an entry in the SEXTANTE toolbox. That adds some
> homogeneity and is probably less confusing, IMHO
>

Regards

Tim

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