[Qgis-developer] Removal of labeling search methods??

[Paolo Cavallini]

Seems quite reasonable to me.
Any difference between methods, performance-wise? Labeling on slow machines is sometimes problematic.
Thanks Nyall!

Il 25 aprile 2016 12:48:27 CEST, Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> ha scritto:
>Hi all,
>
>Just floating an idea out there... does anyone think there'd be major
>objections if I removed all the labeling "search methods" and just
>left the default one ("chain") as a hardcoded method?
>
>I'm referring to the choice between Chain/Popmusic tabu/Popmusic
>Chain/Popmusic Tabu Chain/FALP which you can get to from the global
>label settings. I"m 99.99% sure there's no-one around the QGIS
>community who has any idea what all these different methods mean, and
>googling for them only leads to the QGIS manual (which just mentions
>them, no details) and the original PAL journal article (with scant
>detail).
>
>Could we just pick one and remove the rest? My motivation is that
>there's a ton of duplicated code here, and if I want to add something
>to the label selection routines (namely mutually exclusive labels) I'd
>currently have to implement it multiple times in a huge mash of
>undocumented, obscure code.
>
>I'd love to kill all this duplicated, unmaintained code and
>consolidate it all into a single pathway.
>
>Any ideas/objections/clarifications to this?
>
>Nyall
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