[QGIS-Developer] Dropping "spatial query" plugin

[Tim Sutton]

+1 from me to remove it too!

Regards

Tim

> On 12 Sep 2017, at 4:41 PM, Régis Haubourg <regis.haubourg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> +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 <mailto: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 <mailto:alexander.bruy at gmail.com>> wrote:
> +1 for removal.
> 
> 2017-09-12 2:59 GMT+03:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com <mailto:nyall.dawson at gmail.com>>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've just opened https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5170 <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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