[QGIS-Developer] Separate namespaces for QGIS-LTR and QGIS (3)

Fri Mar 9 02:54:20 PST 2018

Sorry for rewinding the thread to where it started.
Provided that users can benefit from keeping the last stable release and an
LTR both installed, do you think that this is up to the specific platform
to handle this (OsGeo4W does it already) or a more general solution can be
provided?
The LTR will be on version 2 for several months, so I suggest the libraries
could use a different namespace. Is this an acceptable solution? Are there
alternatives.
c

On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:13 PM, Nathan Woodrow <madmanwoo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Carlo,
>
> I guess we are a bit confused at the moment because the goal of QGIS has
> never really been that at all, at least not post v1.  We have always aimed
> to make it the best it can be for a lot of different workflows.
>
> I'm not sure I would consider anything in QGIS a step backwords at all,
> There has been a crazy, and I mean crazy, amount of dev work to create a
> better product for end users.
>
> - Nathan
>
> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Carlo A. Bertelli (Charta s.r.l.) <
> carlo.bertelli at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> No pun intended, when you announced what you were going to do, I used
>> MapInfo as my main GIS and Thuban as a viewer and I hoped very much you
>> were starting something that was went further.
>> Since version 0.11 I was using QGIS as my "main" GIS. What I was saying
>> is that the continuous improvement made all users rely on a dependable
>> QGIS. Departing from a cautious approach to a very fast development pace
>> means users can keep an LTR for day to day working (no advanced needs) and
>> an "evolution" approach for the advanced features. I didn't think that
>> saying "viewer" I diminished the huge effort of these years. The "viewer"
>> approach is still a plus of QGIS and it's not something easy to accomplish
>> if I see the work on Processing and what has been done for GRASS. I think
>> being a "viewer" for GDAL means getting all of the benefits of an evolving
>> project. This has its drawbacks, some processing that is needed at the
>> feature level was available only on layers as a whole. I meant that, the
>> last major version is a further step that asks for more dependability.
>> My apologies for all the developers who felt injured by my words.
>> c
>>
>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 12:04 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> On 03 Mar 2018, at 20:43, Jürgen E. Fischer <jef at norbit.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Sat, 03. Mar 2018 at 12:43:00 +0100, Carlo A. Bertelli (Charta
>>> s.r.l.) wrote:
>>>
>>> but also abandoned the idea of QGIS as a simple viewer that acquires
>>> editing
>>> abilities by plugins.
>>>
>>>
>>> Was that ever a goal?  If so, I didn't know - but I have been around
>>> only for a
>>> bit more than 10 years ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> Yeah I think the idea of being a full fledged GIS rather than a simple
>>> viewer has been with us for many years already….glad to see it is really
>>> taking hold with 3.0 though :-) Great to have your inputs Carlo.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Jürgen
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