+1 from me to remove Evis (I nearly wrote Elvis hahah…..but I guess he was already removed).
> On 14 May 2019, at 09:04, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> >> > > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://www.faunalia.eu/> > QGIS.ORG <http://qgis.org/> Chair: > http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/ > <http://planet.qgis.org/planet/user/28/tag/qgis%20board/> > _______________________________________________ > QGIS-Developer mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > <https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer> — Tim Sutton Co-founder: Kartoza Ex Project chair: QGIS.org Visit http://kartoza.com <http://kartoza.com/> to find out about open source: Desktop GIS programming services Geospatial web development GIS Training Consulting Services Skype: timlinux IRC: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net I'd love to connect. Here's my calendar link <https://calendly.com/timlinux> to make finding time easy.
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