[QGIS-Developer] Backporting support for relative SVG paths in project files

[Victor Olaya]

When i say "backporting" i should have said "implementing" :-) I
understand that it might be impossible to use that PR as it is or just
cherry pick a few commits. I am just asking the community about their
opinion on adding that feature in 2.18 as well (the ability to use
relative paths for SVG files in projects). This has some interest for
us at Boundless, and we might work on it, but i would like to get some
feedback before doing anything

Thanks everyone for your comments!

2017-06-22 10:30 GMT+02:00 Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com>:
> Hi Victor
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 8:51 AM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to know your opinion about backporting the support for
>> relative paths for marker files in project files to 2.18. It's an
>> interesting feature that would be good to have without having to
>> depend on QGIS 3.
>
> Are we talking about relative paths to SVG files in _embedded_ projects?
>
> https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/4426
>
> That pull request simply cannot be backported as it is to 2.18 - it is
> full of API breaks and it depends on previous QGIS 3 project
> refactoring work as well. For 2.18 we would need to completely rework
> it, probably with some hacks to overcome the problem of having API
> fixed.
>
> Cheers
> Martin