Hi William, On Feb 24, 2013, at 16:58, William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Feb 24, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Victor Olaya wrote: > >> - In Mac, since there seems to be problems, I would let the user >> select the folder itself, and not infere anything from the system or >> assume any path. It seems that SAGA is not easy to install in Mac, so >> if someone can do it, probably he can configure SEXTANTE correctly. >> >> Anyway, since I know absolutely zero about Mac OS and do not have a >> Mac to test, I would need someone to run some simple analysis in SAGA >> using saga_cmd and send it to me, so I can see exactly how to do it. >> That includes setting any environment variables (as it is done now for >> the Windows version), or any other thing that might be needed, so I >> can set it to run on Mac (or at least, try to...) > > > I looked at it today. They have a good wiki page on compiling for OS X, and > I got it compiled with minor tweaks. Now that I understand how Saga is used > in Sextante, and how Saga in installed, I think Saga could be bundled with > QGIS. The saga_cmd would be in the app package bin/ where it would be found > automatically by QGIS, and the libraries in lib/. > > If saga_cmd loads command libraries by relative path (ie ../lib/saga, as they > are installed), this would work simply without any environment settings. > > But if saga loads them by absolute path (ie the configured --prefix), and > there is no env setting to set a different path, this would be bad since it > would lock down the whole QGIS app to the build path (a Mac app should work > if the user moves or renames it, though it is kindof discouraged since it > confuses installers). I could try an easy test outside of sextante/qgis by > renaming my saga install folder and trying to run a simple command. Does it look like something worth creating as a framework? Having the commandline saga might be useful for some if it is not nontrivial. Thanks as always, John _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
