[QGIS-Developer] Dropping "spatial query" plugin

[Régis Haubourg]

+1 , let's get rid of it, it had many issues also.

2017-09-12 8:41 GMT+02:00 Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at>:

> +1 to remove since the "lost" functionality is pretty much covered by the
> regular attribute table anyway.
> Anita
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 7:03 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +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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