On 8 May 2018 at 18:35, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 8 May 2018 at 16:15, Nyall Dawson <nyall.daw...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 8 May 2018 at 15:59, Paolo Cavallini <cavall...@faunalia.it> wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> a plugin[0], quite interesting, contains compiled+src C code[1]. We >>> generally avoid this, so the question is: what can we suggest to the author? >>> All the best, and thanks. >> >> Looks like a great plugin - at least if the sample results are >> anything to go by! >> >> I've had a quick look over the code and there's nothing too scary >> there. I'd suggest that we could approach the author of the plugin and >> see if they are interested in submitting the code to the master >> branch, so that the code is compiled alongside qgis. This way the >> binary won't be an issue, and the algorithm will become available >> out-of-the-box. Seems like a win all round to me. > > Another benefit from merging into core: we could use this as an option > for the live hillshade renderer. Win!
Sorry for the spam: I meant to add - since I'm passionate about both cartography and processing, I'd be more than happy to mentor this change. Nyall > > Nyall > >> >> Nyall >> >> >>> >>> >>> [0] http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/karika/ >>> [1] https://gitlab.com/motlimot/karika/tree/master/lib >>> -- >>> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ 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