Forewarded. It may indeed be too early to package it. John, could you please update us when the API is fully stabilized? All the best.
-------- Messaggio Inoltrato -------- Hello Johan, It's true that things are still somewhat in flux with the WhiteboxTools project. I am adding tools to the list fairly quickly at this point but the existing tools are unlikely to change significantly in their external facing functioning (i.e. their input parameters and outputs are unlikely to change). The API seems to be stabilizing fairly well, although today I added a new command (--toolbox) that allows tools to be grouped logically. I had always planned on making this change. I cannot see adding any additional commands in the future now that this work is complete. One additional change that will occur sometime in the near future will be support for reading/writing vector data. This won't have any effects on the external-facing API, i.e. the available commands. It will only impact the list of available tools as I start to add some of the Whitebox GAT tools that have vector inputs and/or outputs. A key thing to remember is that these new tools are mainly ports of existing Whitebox GAT tools. Thus, they have existed for many years and have undergone extensive testing. Obviously the porting to Rust from Java can potentially introduce some new flaws that will require testing to uncover, but overall this is a set of well-established geospatial analysis tools. That said, it may well be too early to adopt WhiteboxTools for some applications as things are still changing. Regards, John John Lindsay, PhD Room 346, Hutt Building, Department of Geography, The University of Guelph, E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56074 Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/faculty/lindsay-john Research page: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/ Whitebox GAT: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Johan Van de Wauw <[email protected]> *Sent:* Thursday, December 14, 2017 3:03 PM *To:* Paolo Cavallini *Cc:* Debian GIS Project; John Lindsay *Subject:* Re: WhiteboxTools RFP Paolo, How stable is the project currently? If I read this on the website, I am not sure it would be a good fit for stable (perhaps unstable): The WhiteboxTools project is related to the GoSpatial project, which has similar goals but is designed using the Go programming language instead of Rust. Both projects are currently considered to be experimental. Kind Regards, Johan On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:32 PM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > there is an interesting software: > http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/software.shtml#WhiteboxTools > which is essentially a porting in rust of the previous > http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html > I believe it would be interesting to package it, and the author (cc), > althoug not a Debian user himself, seems available for help. > Is someone interested? Is someone available to direct the process? > Thanks a lot. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu <http://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 >
