[QGIS-Developer] Moving qgsnativealgorithms to analysis lib?

[Matthias Kuhn]

Hi Nyall,

I think this move would make perfect sense.

Analysis should not have any dependency on gui, while it certainly needs
to depend on core.

+1 and thanks for the cleanup!

Matthias


On 10/12/2017 06:28 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just after some opinions on whether or not the native c++ processing
> algorithm implementations (qgsnativealgorithms.cpp/.h) should
> ultimately reside in core or analysis.
>
> Up till 3.0 analysis has been a bit of a funny library, since it mixed
> up the logic for the analysis methods with their ui interface
> (requiring progress dialogs and the like). So it kind of sat above
> both core and gui, but below app.
>
> That's all been cleaned up now for 3.0, so analysis no longer has any
> use of gui methods. Now it could potentially sit just above the core
> library, and be used in non-gui situations like qgis server and
> qfield. Accordingly, I think it's the right place for these c++
> processing algorithms to ultimately sit.
>
> But I don't want to restrict ourselves by doing this...
>
> So, qfield and qgis server maintainers: would moving these
> implementations to analysis prevent you from using them in future? Do
> you have issues with linking in analysis to your applications?
>
> Nyall
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