[QGIS-Developer] What to do with evis?

[Paolo Cavallini]

Hi Nyall,
fully agreed.
Thanks.

On 14/05/19 09:21, Alexander Bruy wrote:
> 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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