[Qgis-developer] Moving providers to core

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> 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)?

It would be easier, but one has to be able to know which provider(s)
are available at runtime.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
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