[Qgis-developer] Proposal: Having all Processing providers as independent components

[Nyall Dawson]

On 6 December 2016 at 16:33, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> This would have some advantages. Providers would be better organized,

Can you elaborate on this? Is it just better organised because they
would be in separate repos?

> and they could be updated and managed independently. In the future, we
> might even think about packaging both the provider itself and the
> backend app, which would be a much better user experience. Also, for
> beginners it would be easier and less intimidating to have a simpler
> toolbox (and with just the algorithms that are more robust and work
> always out of the box), and then extend it as needed.

I agree with this point. I like to see us push attention toward the
native algorithms, as those are the only ones we have direct control
over and which we are in a position to improve and bug fix.

Nyall