[QGIS-Developer] Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin deprecated

Loïc Bartoletti lbartoletti at tuxfamily.org
Tue Jun 5 10:00:56 PDT 2018


Hi,

I forked it some years ago since it wasn't maintained, see 
https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/CADDigitize/

FYI, it's integrated into QGIS 3.

Regards

Loïc


Le 05/06/2018 à 13:16, Thomas Baumann a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> the Rectangles-Ovals-Digitizing plugin ( 
> https://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/rectovalDigit ) has an issue that 
> causes QGIS to slow down and get unstable: 
> https://github.com/vinayan/RectOvalDigitPlugin/issues/6
>
> I sent a pullrequest with a fix for the problem ( 
> https://github.com/vinayan/RectOvalDigitPlugin/pull/7 ) but the plugin 
> does not seem to be maintained any more.
>
>
> In 2013 there was already a discussion that the plugin does not seem 
> to be maintained any more:
>
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Fwd-Re-WG-quot-Rectangles-ovals-digitizing-quot-plugin-is-broken-in-QGIS-1-9-td5028866.html
>
> I asked the author if the plugin is still maintained by him:
>
> ----
>
> Hello,
>
> just a short question: Is the RectOvalDigitPlugin still maintained by you?
>
> best wishes,
> Thomas
>
> ---
> The answer:
>
> Pavol Kapusta
> Hello, the short answer is no. Best regards
> ---
> Thomas
>
> Ok, thanks for the reply.
> I think the Plugin should then be marked as deprecated as it has some 
> issues that slow down qgis.( I sent a pull request with a patch).
> Are you ok with that?
>
> ---
>
> Pavol Kapusta
>
> Hello,
>
> I am OK with that, of course.
>
> Best regards
>
> ---
>
>
>
> The plugin was obviously migrated to the github account of Vinayan 
> Parameswaran ( https://github.com/vinayan/RectOvalDigitPlugin ) in 
> 2013 but this repository also does not seem to be maintained any more.
> I sent an email to Vinayan Parameswaran but did not get an answer yet.
>
> As the plugin slows down QGIS very badly until it freezes after 
> editing and saving edits for some time I think that the current 
> version in the official plugin repository should be marked as deprecated.
>
> best wishes,
> Thomas
>
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