[Qgis-developer] GGL2 - QGIS integration

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Fernando González <fergonco at gmail.com> wrote:
>> backend is in Java and that probably won't change?
>
> sorry for the silence, I'm traveling.
>
> first, the ggl2 compiler is java, and second, it's task is to traduce ggl2
> code to java code that actually does the job. this means that the dependency
> in java is very strong. i know it is a problem and i don't like it at all,
> but porting it to another language would be quite expensive so we dont
> consider it at this stage.
>

Sure understood, I just wanted to clarify if this was the case.

> I guess the best solution so far is to be content making users install qgis
> and ggl separatedly. I don't know if this is a big problem.
>

I don't think it is a big problem, it just possibly precludes us from
shipping with GGL available 'out of the box' which reduces the
potential user base.

Regards

Tim

> regards.
>
>
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Tim
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