[Qgis-developer] Future of spatialite provider?

[josef k]

Here is just a reminder from a user/plugin maintainer, please ignore if not
relevant.

If the spatialite data provider is to be removed then we will have to
update some plugins to reflect that which is ok, not a big deal. But it is
important that the current features of the spatialite data provider are
included into the OGR provider before changing.

E.g. we are using the spatalite data provider in plugins to add non-spatial
spatialite tables. I could not achieve this by using the OGR provider
(although it was a couple of years ago I was looking into this and it may
have changed by now).

regards
Josef

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 11:28:45 +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
>
>> I'm wondering what the future of the spatialite provider should be. I
>> find it odd that spatialite layers utilise the dedicated spatialite
>> provider, but geopackage layers use the OGR provider.
>>
>> I think there's potential value in removing the spatialite provider
>> and always reading these layers via OGR.
>>
>>
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