I am +1 (of course). Another notable feature gap is virtual layers.
Kind regards. On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 2:43 AM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer <qgis-developer@lists.osgeo.org> wrote: > > Hi list, > > I wanted to raise the discussion around potentially demoting the DB Manager > plugin to become an opt-in, not installed by default plugin available from > the QGIS plugin repository only. > > It's likely no surprise to anyone on this list, but there's been a multi-year > effort (mostly thanks to Alessandro!) to move all the important functionality > of db manager over to the QGIS browser. This was driven by a number of > factors: > > - It was confusing and messy to expose database management tools through two > completely separate parts of the QGIS interface > - The DB Manager tools are written in provider-specific ways, and don't use > generic QGIS database/provider API calls. As a result there's a lot of > duplicate code there, and db manager doesn't gain the benefits of new data > provider features. (E.g. only a subset of the databases supported by QGIS and > the browser management tools are available for management in db manager) > - The DB Manager functionality wasn't available for other parts of > QGIS/plugins/scripts/etc to reuse, whereas the browser functionality is all > nicely exposed to PyQGIS and is used by other parts of QGIS, eg. processing > tools. > - The Python code implementing db manager is fragile, and is subject to > semi-frequent regressions/breakage (through no fault of the authors -- it's > just the nature of complex python applications which aren't soaked in unit > tests) > > I'd say we've reached a stage where the browser now offers all the common > functionality also available in db manager, and we can start to seriously > discuss the future of the plugin. > > My personal view is that we should demote the plugin to a > community-maintained, non-officially supported plugin available only through > the QGIS plugin repositories, and remove it from the default QGIS install. > > Thoughts/discussion welcome :) > > 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 -- Alessandro Pasotti QCooperative: www.qcooperative.net ItOpen: www.itopen.it _______________________________________________ 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
