[Qgis-user] QGIS big fail in deleting Shapes!!

[Saber Razmjooei]

Dear Uwe,

 

There are some work-arounds and solutions provided within the ticket.

 

Also, work is underway to resolve the issue in the next LTR release. Last
time I checked (5 minutes ago) it is still present in master.

 

I totally agree with you that there should be a warning to users to make
them aware of this limitation.

 

In general, QGIS and other GIS/non-GIS proprietary software come with bugs.
The reason developers haven't fixed this bug and other bugs is due to lack
of resources (time, money). 

 

The project steering committee is committed to resolving the bugs and they
have already allocated a big proportion of their income for bug fixing. You
can see last year's financial report hear:

http://qgis.org/en/_downloads/PublicQGISfinancialreport2014.pdf

 

 

If you think, there should be more work done to increase the quality of
QGIS, you can get involved or contribute to the project:

http://qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/governance/sponsorship/sponsorship.html

 

Regards,

Saber

 

From: Qgis-user [mailto:qgis-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Uwe
Fischer
Sent: 19 January 2016 19:10
To: 'qgis-user ML'
Subject: [Qgis-user] QGIS big fail in deleting Shapes!!

 

Hello all,

 

today I was working on a shape dataset and I had to delete some features.
Later I opened the shapefile in ArcMap by chance and I found that the
features were not deleted. They still did exist. I repeated the process -
and got the same result. Then, searching the internet, I found this
incredible post: https://hub.qgis.org/issues/11007

 

It is a well known problem (for 1,5 years!!) that QGIS is not able to delete
shapes in a reliable way!! I was horrified to read this because it is the
same as if a Word processor would not be able to delete a letter from a
text. I cannot understand why the QGIS developers haven't fix that yet. If
QGIS really wants to compete with ArcMap, they should fix it as soon as
possible. At least, the according menu entries or buttons should be
inactivated if they don't bring out reliable results.

 

My questions are:

.         is this information still up to date? I can't read all of the 80
answers to the post now to get in-depth information ...

.         does anybody have information about how they are planning to
handle this problem at the development team?

.         is there a workaround for this? Do the GRASS vector tools bring
out reliable results?

.         are there more of those software errors in QGIS that might lead to
huge problems in working on vector data and sharing them with others? If so,
is there a "black list" of things one is never allowed to use in QGIS if you
don't want to destroy your datasets?

 

 

Regards,

Uwe Fischer



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