Hi Nyall, fully agreed. Thanks. On 14/05/19 09:21, Alexander Bruy wrote: > Hi, > > +1 to remove eVis. > > вт, 14 трав. 2019 о 02:23 Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> пише: >> >> Hi list, >> >> With Denis' recent PR adding native support for browsing >> features/tables (see https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/9992), I think >> it's a good time to open discussion about the future of the evis >> plugin. >> >> In my understanding, browsing tables was one of the remaining >> compelling features which evis offered, and if we have a native >> integrated support for this then I doubt there's a good reason to keep >> dragging around the evis baggage with us. >> >> My 2c: >> >> - The plugin is well and truly abandoned and unmaintained. It's only >> seen fixes to keep it compiling for the last 5+ years. There's >> obviously no demand from the user or development community to extend >> this plugin. This either means the plugin is unused, or it's "feature >> complete". My gut feeling is the former, or we'd at least be seeing >> bug reports still flow in. >> >> - It's a substantial amount of code, and it does require work to keep >> it functional. If this work isn't needed, we're just wasting our time >> >> - It's a core c++ plugin, which we are trying to reduce. Again, >> there's been no movement from anyone I know of to port this to a >> not-installed-by-default python plugin (which is where it really >> belongs) >> >> If I'm not the only one thinking evis has reached it's eol, I would propose >> we: >> >> - Add a messagebar warning when the plugin is enabled/loaded on QGIS >> 3.8, stating that it is deprecated and will be removed in QGIS 3.10. >> >> - Link this message to a QGIS blog post detailing the reason for >> removal, which can clearly state that if users require the >> functionality they should contact the QGIS project to discuss funding >> a community maintained, Python version of the plugin >> >> - Remove it in 3.10. >> >> Thoughts? >> >> 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 > > >
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