[QGIS-Developer] Dropping "spatial query" plugin

[Alexander Bruy]

+1 for removal.

2017-09-12 2:59 GMT+03:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just opened https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5170, which drops
> the old core "Spatial Query" plugin.
>
> Because the functionality of this plugin is now better handled by the
> Processing c++ "Extract by Location" and "Select by Location"
> algorithms, in my opinion this plugin can be safely dropped now.
>
> The processing algorithms have the benefits of:
>
> - a familiar, more modern interface
> - ability to be included in multi-step models
> - ability to be used in batch modes
> - always available in all QGIS installs (as opposed to the always
> installed, but disabled-by-default spatial query plugin)
> - unit tests
> - non-blocking execution
> - more optimised code
> - features can be extracted to a new layer regardless of input layer
> type (spatial query only allows this for spatialite, postgres and some
> other formats)
>
> There's one feature which is available in the spatial query plugin
> which isn't present in the processing algs - the interactive list of
> affected feature ids (clicking features in the list will zoom to
> them). However - I don't consider this list alone to be worth keeping
> the plugin alive for, since most users won't find a list of raw
> feature IDs particularly helpful.
>
> Please speak up if you think there's still a requirement to keep this
> plugin around, otherwise it will be dropped for 3.0!
>
> Nyall
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Alexander Bruy