Hi William, On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 5:32 PM, William Kyngesburye <wokl...@kyngchaos.com> wrote: > http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3999 > Even so, it's not really an OS X problem - it's more of a > conceptual problem: PROVIDERS AND PLUGINS ARE NOT > SHARED LIBRARIES.
although this is not a OSX problem we also can't forget the GRASS plugin works on the quite all the platforms except OSX. We have 3 alternative options: 1. refactoring the provider+plugin code at all, 2. choosing to drop it, 3. just keep it as it is. The third option is the easier way, the current one. Even though it not solve the problem it requires no additional effort. The first option requires enough work. I tried to separate the grass plugin and it's provider while I was in Zurich for the HF in November, but the editing part of the grass plugin uses a lot of methods defined in the provider so I threw in the towel. The second one instead can be done with just few changes, but IMHO it's mindless to drop it without any good reason, furthermore considering it works on the other platforms. > Even though I don't use GRASS in QGIS, I'd hate to see a 1.8 > release with partially working GRASS support. I understand your point of view, but if OSX users agree the plugin is useful they should also consider to sponsor the fix. Regards. -- Giuseppe Sucameli _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list Qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
