Would it be possible/reasonable for QGIS repositories to provide the supported versions of SAGA alongside QGIS? This issue comes up often and it seems to consume a lot of the Processing developer's time (which seems to be very limited at the moment). Cheers
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 7:06 AM, Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 24/12/2015 07:46, Victor Olaya ha scritto: > > I think that changes in Processing to support newer SAGA versions have > > not been backported to the 2.8.x series, which explains that. > > > > However, with SAGA being the less predictable software ever having > > tons of API breaks in each version...I dont think our LTR should move > > the supported SAGA version. If 1.8 had support for SAGA 2.1, it should > > stick to that for all 2.8.x, and actually the installers and bundles > > should not advance the version and ship that same version of SAGA > > always. And if not using a bundled version, the user should install > > the supported version of SAGA, not a more recent one, since that will > > probably compromise the stability. > > Hi Victor, > thanks for the response. Unfortunately, this holds true only for distros > where we have complete control over the stack (only Win, I believe). On > Debian, as in my case, packages get updated all the time, so we really > have no choice. I acknowledge the issues with saga changes; on the other > hand, supporting newer versions on more context will help us spotting > issues and fixing them earlier. > Of course, the alternative is to fork saga and keep and internal stable > version. I noticed, however, that currently there seems to be more > activity than in the past, so forking will be bad: > http://sourceforge.net/p/saga-gis/code-0/commit_browser > All the best. > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu > QGIS & PostGIS courses: http://www.faunalia.eu/training.html > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer >
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