[Qgis-developer] Memory Layers - some proposals

[Vincent Picavet]

Hi Nathan, all,

Le jeudi 25 septembre 2014 09:56:58, Nathan Woodrow a écrit :
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> IMO we could in the future use sqlite in memory datastore for the memory
> provider which gives us a lot more options and range.

Hugo is currently writing a QEP to exactly do that and as well address some 
issues regarding database features re-implementation.
He should publish it for review sooner or later.

This could help handle the memory layer topic, but actually is a wider issue.

Vincent

> 
> Changing the format of the project file to something that isn't xml is a
> interesting idea however it's not something that should be rushed into
> without consideration so I think that is a very different topic.
> 
> - Nathan
> 
> On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 5:19 PM, Matthias Kuhn <matthias.kuhn at gmx.ch> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Please excuse my ignorance, but
> > 
> > Why would you want a memory (as in RAM) layer when you want permanent
> > data?
> > 
> > For portability reasons?
> > That's fine, but then we should offer a possibility to support
> > portability support for a real geo-format (with spatial index and all
> > the goodies). To stuff it into the project file there can be support
> > from a plugin, but I would not vote for adding this to core.
> > 
> > To me it seems that the current demand for this comes mainly from wrong
> > expectations created by the name (and people subsequently loosing data).
> > And we can fix the name.
> > For the portability issue, I'd rather go the longer way but get it right.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Matthias
> > 
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