Since the underlying issues with the Python bindings are now fixed,
in most cases we can safely default to allowing an algorithm to
run in a background thread!!
So now we make this the default, and require individual algorithms
which are NOT thread safe to declare this. This includes algorithms
which directly manipulate the current project or layers (such as
setting layer styles), alter the selections in layers, or which
rely on 3rd party libraries (for now, SAGA and GRASS algorithms
are marked as not thread safe... TODO - someone more familiar with
these libraries can investigate and remove the flag if appropriate).
Also models are marked as non-thread safe. TODO: only flag an
individual model as thread-unsafe if any of its child algorithms
report this flag.
* A new createopt textbox has been added to the parameters dialog for algorithms which exports to raster files.
* A new metaopt textbox has also been added to the Algorithm parameters dialog.
* Raster file format is detected from output filename extension.
* GdalUtils has been improved to correctly detect raster formats supported for creation.
* QFileDialog for output rasters now display only file filters for supported output raster file formats.
- Improve GRASS detection for all OS.
- Use GRASS --exec command.
- Unified GRASS batch job method for all OS (easier to maintain).
- Handle MS-Windows codepages (for data only, if you have a username with special characters, it will not work).
- Better support for filepath normalization.
- add -m option to r.out.gdal.
Algorithms and other processing code should use this method
(instead of dataobjects.getLayerFromString) to
retrieve layers from a string, as it considers the processing
context and allows resolving strings to temporarily stored layers.
This permits processing models to function correctly when
intermediate results are stored as memory layers. Subsequent
model algorithms can then access these temporary layers as inputs.
All temporary layers will be removed when the context object
is destroyed after the model algorithm is run.
