[Qgis-psc] Motion: svn write access for Sergey Yakushev

Marco Hugentobler marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch
Thu Jan 20 23:38:14 PST 2011


Am Mittwoch, 19. Januar 2011, um 21.12:39 schrieb Martin Dobias:
> Hi
> 
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at linfiniti.com> wrote:
> > Should we consider moving things from being plugins to core
> > functionality when we move them from 'outside' into trunk? My
> > rationale for this is:
> > 
> > - if the tool is not cross-cutting (widely useful) it should not be in
> > trunk - if it is in trunk it should be incorporated into the general ui
> > so that it feels integrated
> > - we can reduce plugin menu clutter and make tools feel a more natural
> > part of QGIS
> 
> I completely agree with Tim. There are several plugins within trunk
> that nowadays are still plugins just from the historical point of
> view. Stuff like loading of WFS / GPS layers or adding some
> decorations to canvas should be regular parts of the application.
> Basically all of the c++ plugins that we ship could be moved to
> appropriate parts of qgis sources - the key is to improve the
> integration with the rest of GUI. Additionally we would probably save
> some time during QGIS startup because it will not have to load further
> modules.

+1 makes sense.
Sergey could move the gui part of roadgraph to the app directory and the non-
gui part to analysis/vector

Regards,
Marco

> > Not sure how the above applies to python plugins though....
> 
> It applies to python plugins too. They can get better integrated into
> QGIS GUI in the same way as c++ plugins. The difference is that
> keeping some piece of functionality as a plugin has the advantage that
> updates can be released independently from qgis releases.
> 
> Regards
> Martin
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