On 23/09/2014 8:44 pm, "Régis Haubourg" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > I didn't mention the option to port Mem Layer saver to core for two reasons: > - that doesn't solve the proble of general plugin dependencies > - we already discussed how to port Mem Layer Saver to core on list, and > ended up to the conclusion that we needed to modify qgs format from a xml > text file to a zip container of project properties + datas + resources > (symbols svg for instance)
Ahh, I wasn't aware of this earlier discussion, I'll look it up. > Porting that plugin to core is allright to me, but we will make qgis the > only soft to write data files along data project file, with high risks of > data loss (because user will forget it or trash it). Do we really want it? That's not entirely true - MapInfo saves data written into cosmetic layers in its project (workspace) files. It's quite handy for quick cartographic-only modifications to a map. Nyall
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