[Qgis-developer] SEXTANTE and core plugins

[Pedro Venâncio]

Hi Victor,

I understand the idea of including all plugins in Sextante, even if only as a wrap for the first times. I just wonder if it will raise some confusion for users who are not aware of this, when they realize that there are algorithms that can not be used in modeler and in batch. They may be led to think that this is a bug in these algorithms. Will need to find a way of, at least, alert users to it.

But just think about having all QGIS plugins within Sextante, and soon, all scriptable or usable in modeler, makes my day happier! :)

Best regards,
Pedro





----- Original Message -----
From: Victor Olaya 

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