+7WHAT :
Modular installation with possibility to pick transformers and reader categories to limit the installation. Packages would allow to add 3D, BI or PointCloud transformers and formats later if needed for example (even partial upgrades?).
WHY :
+10To me FME Desktop Editions are already modular in nature in terms of formats and transformers.
When working with lots of data, you never know when you will need that new transformer or a reader or writer!
Happy FME :-)
SRG
+7Thanks for the comment!
Apart from the hub and the sdk, I do not really see the modular nature of the installation.
On the unexpected need for a transformer or a format I agree to some extent (even if I wonder how an accounting department would use CSGBuilder). Anyway, I can do a search on custom transformers without downloading them. I guess it could be the same for some other groups of transformers/formats. I just wonder if this would require to rewrite a lot of the code.
FME Packages on the FME Hub (https://hub.safe.com/?types=fme_packages) are a we very a step that we already took into this direction. All Transfomers and Formats included in FME Packages are developed similar to included Transfomers and Formats and appear in FME Workbench Quick Add or Transformer Gallery to be added.
But these Transfomers and Formats are only downloaded and installed once you add them to a FME Workspace. This way none of the code or libraries need to be shipped with every release and we can easily update FME Packages quickly and users get access to bug fixes and new features without having to upgrade FME.
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