[Qgis-psc] motion: globe plugin, write access for Pirmin Kalberer

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

+1 from me

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Marco Hugentobler
<marco.hugentobler at sourcepole.ch> wrote:
> Hi Paolo
>
>> - we drop any hope to have multithreads in the foreseeable future?
>
> I'm not the right person to answer this question.

Alex was working on merging the mt branch - not sure how far he is -
its a difficult job as it is branched off QGIS 1.5.

>
> @Nathan: Threading branch and globe are connected only indirectly in the sense
> that the threading branch is a proper possibility to avoid render loop
> conflicts between QGIS and the globe plugin.
> With the mutex lock it is now possible to use the globe plugin outside of the
> threading branch.
>

@Nathan - put Marco's reply another way, the Globe used to depend on
threading branch, now it doesnt so it can be incorporated. The
threading branch is still on the cards.

Regards

Tim

>
> Regards,
> Marco
>
>
>
>
> Am Montag, 4. Juli 2011, 09.09:27 schrieb Paolo Cavallini:
>> Il 04/07/2011 09:06, Marco Hugentobler ha scritto:
>> > I'm therefore proposing to include the globe plugin to the codebase and
>> > to give Pirmin Kalberer, who is available as a plugin maintainer, write
>> > access to the qgis repo.
>> >
>> > Please give feedback and votes.
>>
>> +1
>> Does this mean that:
>> - in the current implementation the globe will be significantly slower?
>> - we drop any hope to have multithreads in the foreseeable future?
>> Thanks a lot.
>
>
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