[Qgis-psc] Proposal to support multi-threaded development

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Andreas,

On Sun, 24. Nov 2013 at 17:30:51 +0100, Andreas Neumann wrote:
> I am asking the PSC that the international QGIS project is also
> co-funding this project, perhaps with approx. Euro 5k.

+1, if we have the funds.

 
> Marco Hugentobler worked on multi-threaded rendering in QGIS enterprise
> (based on the 1.9x branch).  Horst demoed this version at the recent QGIS
> CH coordination meeting. It looks very promising as it does not block
> the UI. Users can navigate to a different extent while QGIS is still
> rendering. QGIS would then cancel the old render threads and start with
> the new threads. But this work is not compatible with the 2.x
> development branch.

Isn't that a dead end?  Makes me wonder...


Jürgen

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