Hi, If you guys think about integrating SAGA closer into QGIS, could we also fix the issue that SAGA is currently limited to reading Shapefiles for vector input? Probably a lot of work - but would this be feasible?
Greetings, Andreas On 2016-06-01 12:23, Alexander Bruy wrote: > If we decide to go this way, I'd suggest to put SAGA algs > into QGIS analysis library, so we can add Python bindings > to them too. Also in this case everyone can access them > similarly to qgis.core and qgis.gui. > > 2016-06-01 12:57 GMT+03:00 Victor Olaya <[email protected]>: I am familiar > with SAGA source code, and algorithms are independent > and self contained, very modular structure, so it should be easy to > use them. There is a lot of work in there, since the number of > algorithms is very large, but it can be a progressive thing. Having > the in the QGIS source code would be fantastic. > > If we decide to go in this direction, we can maybe get rid of the SAGA > provider in core, and have it as a separate plugin (and maybe a ship > SAGA itself with the plugin??), for those wanting to run SAGA itself. > In core we would add native Processing algorithms that would use the > QGIS native functionality that we clone from SAGA. There is no need to > port everything, at first just the most common ones or those that have > no equivalent in other providers. Better a reduced set of robust and > commonly used algs than a large colelction of them that is not so > stable as it should. > > Not sure how we can tackle this, but definitely it is an option to > consider. It would solve all issues with format conversions, etc... so > it's clearly worth a try. > > My 2 cents > > Cheerss > > 2016-06-01 11:11 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini <[email protected]>: Il > 01/06/2016 10:51, Tom Chadwin ha scritto: > > Would it be fair to say that non-Windows users are more likely to be able to > handle other ways around this issue? > not in an easy and clean way. > Better a general solution than a hack. > All the best. > > -- > Paolo Cavallini - www.faunalia.eu [1] > 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 _______________________________________________ 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 Links: ------ [1] http://www.faunalia.eu
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