On 30 September 2016 at 15:39, Neumann, Andreas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I vaguely remember that it is used to display the satellite constellation of > GPS receivers. Potentially also used by some Python plugins.
Yeah - that's the only place it's used in QGIS itself. > > qwt and qwt-polars did cause quite a few troubles for me during compiling in > the past. > > Given that qt5 has a charting component that also includes polar charts > (http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtcharts-index.html), I would appreciate to get rid > of the qwtpolar dependency. Only problem is that QtCharts are Qt >= 5.7 only. Last time we discussed this the conclusion was that it'd be moderately straightforward to reimplement the satellite widget as a custom widget ourselves. But no-one's done this and I think we can remove it until someone steps up to port it/fund a port. Nyall > > Andreas > > On 2016-09-30 07:35, Nathan Woodrow wrote: > > Where is it used? > > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2016 3:10 pm Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Just wanted to raise this discussion again now that we've dropped qt4 >> compatibility. >> >> Should we remove all references to qwt polar from the source and >> remove the associated cmake flag? AFAIK it can't be used with qt5 and >> the flag causes a lot of issues for new builders who don't know that >> they need to disable it. >> >> Nyall >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-developer mailing list >> [email protected] >> List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >> Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
