Hi all,

Following a recent announcement [1], the Orfeo Toolbox can now be interfaced with Qgis in an easily maintainable way.

I compiled the set of necessary binaries as an osgeo4w-friendly package, that is, a ZIP which can be unpacked in OSGeo4W installation tree and provide support for OTB within QGis. As said in the mail, the package can be found at [2], and is nightly generated (starting today). It is a set of DLL, plus a Python 2.5 module (swig generated).

It is not linked to QGis directly (the glue is in python), but uses a lot of libraries/software already available in OSGeo4W (gdal, tiff, geotiff, jpeg, swig, pyhon25...). The same binaries can be used with both the release and the dev version of Qgis.

The ultimate solution for providing those binaires to our windows users would be a real integration into OSGeo4W.
I would very much like to hear the opinion of people here about this.
If the community is OK to proceed for such integration, then we can further study how it can be done cleanly (I'm a newbie to OSGeo4W packaging, so I have several questions...). We also have other OTB-related softwares that would strongly benefit an integration in OSGeo4W. We, the Orfeo Toolbox developer team, would be of course available for maintaining the packages in the long term.

Looking forward to read your opinion,
Julien

[1] http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2011-October/016275.html
[2] http://www.orfeo-toolbox.org/packages/nightly/latest/
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