Another reason to remove providers is that algorithms descriptions were not updated and maintained. Even now both SAGA and GRASS providers are not updated to latest stable versions of the corresponding software.
We just simply does not have enough resources to maintain more than 600 algorithms from GRASS and SAGA. Situation with OTB, was even worse, it requires special handling of the parameters. I still think that Processing should be in core with minimal set of algorithms (native and GDAL), all other providers should be plugins and installed by users. Ideally these providers also should be maintained by interested groups of devs/users, not by QGIS devs. 2018-01-31 12:17 GMT+02:00 Victor Olaya <[email protected]>: > The original idea was to have most providers removed...which included > R, GRASS and SAGA as well. Finally, only certain providers were > removed, mostly those that require dependencies not provided with QGIS > (LiDAR tools, R...and OTB) > > If maintaining the plugin is complicated and no work is done on that, > then definitely it is better to keep it as core. But we have to make > sure that the user knows that the provider by itself is useless, and > that OTB has to be installed separately. Otherwise, we will see > confusion and i think it will not be a good idea > > My 2 cents > > 2018-01-31 11:04 GMT+01:00 Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>: >> Il 31/01/2018 09:50, Rashad Kanavath ha scritto: >> >>> Thanks Paolo, >>> Can you give a link to that discussion? >> >> I had a look to the archives, and I only found this: >> https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2017-May/048470.html >> Surely Victor and Alex can provide further details. >> All the best. >> >> -- >> Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu >> QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html >> https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=IT&q=qgis,arcgis -- Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ 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
