On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 2:26 PM matteo <matteo.ghe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi devs, > > recently I've made a PR to add an algorithm to the core, written in python: > > https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/44680 > > from the comments I get that from now on additional algorithms are > accepted only in C++ and not in python anymore. > > Is this an official statement? > Yes, kind of: many developers (myself included) agree to that. > My super personal opinion: while I perfectly understand devs position on > C++, I think we might miss some useful contributions from python only > devs (like me :) ) and we lack of a "straight" way to add useful > algorithms to QGIS. > > I see 2 options: > > * development of Processing plugins with algorithms that can lead to > many plugins and difficulties to find them > * have a "straight" way to add additional algorithms to QGIS, like the > "Download scripts from collections" of QGIS 2 > > What is a general opinion about this topic? > I don't know about "general" but we do have the resource sharing plugin (not sure about the current status of it though) and a "standard" python plugin would also allow us to distribute processing plugins. Kind regards. -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it
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