[Qgis-developer] Moving providers to core

[Tim Sutton]

Hi All

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Alexander Bruy
<alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> Now all data providers in QGIS implemented as plugins and have
> no Python (some of them also C++) bindings. Having bindings for
> providers will allow to work with complex datasources from plugins.
> For example, now it is impossible to get response from WMS
> server in Python plugin using only QGIS API.
>
> Maybe we should provide bindings for plugins? But here another
> problem appears: where to place this bindings? Core is wrong place
> because availability of plugins are not guaranteed. As possible
> solution plugins can be linked to core library.
>
> Any opinions?

When chatting about this to Alex earlier, I was also wondering is
there really any need to have the providers be plugins? Maybe things
would be simpler if they were compiled directly into core (or a single
providers lib with python bindings)?

Regards

Tim


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