Il 03/09/2010 16:09, Anne Ghisla ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 12:22 +0200, Damiano G. Preatoni wrote:

>> Any ideas (say, Paolo, Anne, Cleḿent, Boris?)

> I'd like to see a more organic development of animal movement (sensu

> For the integration of the tools in a common toolbar/library, Borys and
> me have already some ideas, anyone who wants to participate is mostly
> welcome.

Hi all.
My thoughts on this:
- nobody liked to duplicate code, we all agree on that; it is ture, however, 
that in
any GIS duplication of functions is very widespread
- batch jobs can easily be handled by both approaches (Rpy and pure Python 
plugins);
the first case is obvious, for the second see e.g. some of the tools in the 
Raster
(AKA GdalTools) plugin
- the main differences between approaches are:
* installation: installing and configuring R so that it can be used by QGIS has 
been
a source of hassle on some operating systems, and is significanlty more 
complicated
that a pure python approach
* R is powerful, but many non-geek users find it difficult to handle; in 
contrast, a
well designed Python plugin can be extremely simple to use.
Therefore, I think there is room for both approaches, especially when one 
considers
that we are talking about *relatively* simple tasks.
On the other hand, for the sake of simplicity, I strongly support the 
integration of
all HR related tools into one menu.
Furthermore, I strongly support the idea of discussing even very initial pland
through the mailing list (that's what it was made for).
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
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