Hi all, I've just opened https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/5170, which drops the old core "Spatial Query" plugin.
Because the functionality of this plugin is now better handled by the Processing c++ "Extract by Location" and "Select by Location" algorithms, in my opinion this plugin can be safely dropped now. The processing algorithms have the benefits of: - a familiar, more modern interface - ability to be included in multi-step models - ability to be used in batch modes - always available in all QGIS installs (as opposed to the always installed, but disabled-by-default spatial query plugin) - unit tests - non-blocking execution - more optimised code - features can be extracted to a new layer regardless of input layer type (spatial query only allows this for spatialite, postgres and some other formats) There's one feature which is available in the spatial query plugin which isn't present in the processing algs - the interactive list of affected feature ids (clicking features in the list will zoom to them). However - I don't consider this list alone to be worth keeping the plugin alive for, since most users won't find a list of raw feature IDs particularly helpful. Please speak up if you think there's still a requirement to keep this plugin around, otherwise it will be dropped for 3.0! Nyall _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer