[Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:40:03 +0100
Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> The port of original algorithms to SEXTANTE seems to be nearly
> complete  and SEXTANTE has superior approach of creating the GUI for
> algorithms dynamically (similar to GRASS toolbox) instead of manually
> creating GUI for each algorithm. So...what about removing the original
> fTools and GdalTools plugins before 2.0 and focusing on improvements
> of their counterparts in SEXTANTE?

+1 for removing fTools and GDALTools.

But unfortunately not all fTools and GDAL tools algorithms ported to
SEXTANTE, some of them still present only in original plugins. I
plan to work on this.

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 20:42:04 +0100
Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyway, I think that redundancy in SEXTANTE is not so bad as having
> several ways of doing the same thing in the QGIS interface, since
> users will understand that algorithms come from differnt providers and
> are not completely identical.

Also note that some users have no SAGA installed but when similar
algorithm from GDAL (or other more common source) is available they
still can do their work. So redundancy is not bad.

-- 
Alexander Bruy