[QGIS-Developer] What to do with evis?

[Alexander Bruy]

Hi,

+1 to remove eVis.

вт, 14 трав. 2019 о 02:23 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> пише:
>
> Hi list,
>
> With Denis' recent PR adding native support for browsing
> features/tables  (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/9992), I think
> it's a good time to open discussion about the future of the evis
> plugin.
>
> In my understanding, browsing tables was one of the remaining
> compelling features which evis offered, and if we have a native
> integrated support for this then I doubt there's a good reason to keep
> dragging around the evis baggage with us.
>
> My 2c:
>
> - The plugin is well and truly abandoned and unmaintained. It's only
> seen fixes to keep it compiling for the last 5+ years. There's
> obviously no demand from the user or development community to extend
> this plugin. This either means the plugin is unused, or it's "feature
> complete". My gut feeling is the former, or we'd at least be seeing
> bug reports still flow in.
>
> - It's a substantial amount of code, and it does require work to keep
> it functional. If this work isn't needed, we're just wasting our time
>
> - It's a core c++ plugin, which we are trying to reduce. Again,
> there's been no movement from anyone I know of to port this to a
> not-installed-by-default python plugin (which is where it really
> belongs)
>
> If I'm not the only one thinking evis has reached it's eol, I would propose we:
>
> - Add a messagebar warning when the plugin is enabled/loaded on QGIS
> 3.8, stating that it is deprecated and will be removed in QGIS 3.10.
>
> - Link this message to a QGIS blog post detailing the reason for
> removal, which can clearly state that if users require the
> functionality they should contact the QGIS project to discuss funding
> a community maintained, Python version of the plugin
>
> - Remove it in 3.10.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Nyall
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Alexander Bruy