[Qgis-psc] Resource Sharing plugin in core?

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 2/17/20 9:24 AM, Alessandro Pasotti wrote:
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>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:10 AM Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it 
> <mailto:cavallini at faunalia.it>> wrote:
>
>     Hi ale,
>
>     Il 17/02/20 09:08, Alessandro Pasotti ha scritto:
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>     > I am -1 to move it into core (https://github.com/QGIS/qgis).
>     could you please expand on this?
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>
>
> Sure,
>
> first thing is to clarify what we mean for "including a plugin in 
> core", with that I mean that the plugin is integrated in the same 
> github repository of QGIS C++ main code.
>
> The inclusion of resource sharing plugin in core was already discussed 
> a few years ago and at that time I was in favor of it and other 
> developers were not, over the years I switched side too and I'm not in 
> favor anymore, to tell you the truth, I would probably remove ALL 
> other Python plugins from the main QGIS repository except for plugin 
> manager.
>
> The reason?
>
> Because there is really no need to have them in the same repository 
> and because I see no reason why the release cycle of python plugin 
> must follow the same release cycle of QGIS itself (see the endless 
> stream of bugs in DB manager, wouldn't be easier if we could make DB 
> manager a rolling release that people can upgrade/downgrade like any 
> other plugin?).
>
> From a core developer perspective, I'd like to see almost only C++ 
> code in the main repository and let the Python plugins be maintained 
> by a broader community, which doesn't mean that Python plugins must be 
> abandoned or are a less important than the rest, on the contrary, I'm 
> very much in favor of having a few selected plugins maintained and 
> administered by the largest possible QGIS community.

+1

There are also usability advantages of a C++ implementation of resource 
sharing will be that it can be much tighter integrated, for example 
allowing to download additional symbols directly from the symbol 
selector without closing modal windows and switching to a separate 
dialog where styles are managed.

Matthias

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