[Qgis-developer] MongoDB plugins - merge

[Even Rouault]

Le vendredi 30 septembre 2016 08:26:02, Paolo Cavallini a écrit :
> Il 29/09/2016 22:05, Vasilios Kalogirou ha scritto:
> > My name is Vasilios Kalogirou and I have recently developed a plugin
> > which allows users to store vector data in MongoDB
> > (https://github.com/VasiliosKalogirou/Save-layer-in-MongoDB ).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > After trying to publish my plugin in QGIS Python Plugins Repository I
> > got a response from Paolo Cavallini to consider merging my plugin with
> > the other two MongoDB plugins, MongoConnector and Load MongoDB Layers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please let me know of any future steps with regard to this.
> > 
> > Also, please note that on my research I tried to evaluate the
> > functionality of the other two plugins so I would be happy to discuss
> > with the other authors about some key points of the plugins.
> 
> Thanks Vasilios,
> I think many would welcome the landing of a good and robust support of
> MongoDB in QGIS; on the other hand, we're trying hard to reduce the
> duplication of efforts and the confusion for the plugins end users,
> hence my suggestion.
> Moreover, the upcoming QGIS 3 will require some effort in porting the
> plugins, so a smaller number of plugins with stronger dev teams will
> have better chances.
> Vasilios, could you please quickly recall here the strengths of each
> plugin? And, to help us understanding, could you also point to a sample
> DB so we can do some tests?
> BTW, there is also http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/mongo_memorizer/
> Are the other plugins authors listening here? If not, better to also
> contact them directly.

And there's also the OGR MongoDB driver since GDAL 2.1: 
http://gdal.org/drv_mongodb.html . Although I suspect it is rarely compiled by 
default due to the dependency to the MongoDB C++ driver client library

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