On 12 March 2017 at 09:07, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/11/2017 04:26 AM, Nyall Dawson wrote: >> Instead, a better approach is if we selectively change certain >> operations to use a different backend only after we carefully evaluate >> the results for each individual operation concerned. E.g. if we found >> that SFCGAL resulted in intersections which are equally reliable as >> GEOS, and faster in the majority of geometries, then we'd change >> QgsGeometry::intersection to ALWAYS use SFCGAL. > > SFCGAL is not very actively developed, in its current shape is not the > best choice to build upon. It either needs more active participation > from the community, or better funding. Since the initial funding dried > up, the activity in the project slowed to a crawl. > > I'm considering removing the SFCGAL support in the PostGIS Debian > package if the situation doesn't improve. For the same reasons I'd be > reluctant to enable its support in QGIS if that were to arrive.
Thanks for the heads up - this is very valuable to know before anyone invests time in this effort! Nyall _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
