On Apr 24, 2013, at 1:31 PM, Larry Shaffer wrote: > Hi William, > > On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 9:24 AM, William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> > wrote: > Just a note: I'll be bundling OTB and SAGA in the OS X package. I already > have code in sextante to automatically find the bundled copies. > > Why bundle instead of having a separate installer (like is done with the base > GDAL frameworks, etc.)? Same question for the osg/earth frameworks. > Simplicity for me and ease of use for users. My general plan has been separate packages for stuff (GDAL & co.) needed by multiple other end-user packages (GRASS, Mapserver, QGIS). And maybe for tools useful on their own (python modules, and yes, could be SAGA, OTB, TauDEM), if I have time. And a little bit of whatever I feel like doing factors in there also ;)
I did consider an OSG/earth package, but never got around to it. QGIS is the only thing I use that needs it, though I was briefly interested in OSSIM, and there were small build issues early on (now sorted out). > Also, when you get things situated for the release and you have time, I would > appreciate any build notes, so I can add such support to the nightly build. > The main thing is a user bundling cmake script for SAGA, OTB and TauDEM. Do you need any build info for those? OTB isn't hard, just a simple patch. SAGA is a bit of work because of missing autotools in the latest Xcode, and it needs wxWidgets. TauDEM needs some work, a few of us are in communication with the developer to fix it up. > Regards, > > Larry > > > Maybe I'll look again at Taudem. I think when I looked at it a year ago I > was put off by Windows/Arc-centric nature of it. ... ugh, just a quick > browse of the source doesn't look good - mix of windows and unix line endings > in some files needs to be fixed (maybe the compiler doesn't care, but it's > hard to read), and assumption of available headers/libraries, like MPI. This > may not be an option for OS X, at least in the near future. It's also > disappointing that the author didn't use libtiff, so that taudem could > support lzw compression and bigtiff. > ----- William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> http://www.kyngchaos.com/ "Time is an illusion - lunchtime doubly so." - Ford Prefect _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
