Hi Paolo, (note: I'm not ready qgis-dev, not sure if this email reaches it)
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: > Hi all. > I learned during dinner that GRASS7 RC1 is due very soon. This opens the > issue of its functioning in QGIS. IMHO: > > * the qgis-grass-plugin might stop working (this has to be tested) > * some of the module options will be different For the time being people can certainly continue to work with GRASS 6. I think that the plugin needs to be "cloned" for GRASS 7. > * new modules will not be available in QGIS. There might be only a few which could be of interest here (e.g. the highly specialized evapotranspiration modules not but some others yes). For an overview, see http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/Grass7/NewFeatures > I think we can deal with this in several ways: > > * dropping the plugin, and concentrate the work on Processing > * upgrading both the plugin and Processing. (the second: yes) > In the first case, we have two major issues: > > * upgrading Processing GRASS modules I'll do that. I already started with Pirmin and Victor to discuss it. > * changing the current Processing behaviour, avoiding the import-export > phase when piping consecutive GRASS commands; this makes GRASS modules > slower than the equivalent commands of other backends. ... this would not be a good idea. > While the first issue can be solved easily by a couple of people in a > few days, the second one is more tricky, and requires hard coding skills. > In addition, we'll no longer be able to edit GRASS vectors directly. > > In the second case, we'll have more work, and a not-so-nice duplication. > > I would like to have an open discussion on this, avoiding things to just > happen, with the possible negative consequences. I expect that we'll come up with a "Processing" prototype for which supports GRASS 7 soon. Best Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev