[Qgis-developer] SEXTANTE and core plugins

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I am not a fan (not yet anyway) of removing the plugins in
> favour of an interface though only Sextante.  I would be happy if
> fTools could be interfaced and scripted though Sextante but removing
> from the Vector menu at this current time would be very bad IMO.
>

I don't know the SEXTANTE architecture well enough but surely we could
keep the vector menu in place and just delegate the work to some
SEXTANTE tool?

Regards

Tim

> - Nathan
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Pedro Venâncio
> <pedrongvenancio at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> 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
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