On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 4:43 AM, Nyall Dawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4 February 2018 at 22:27, Rashad Kanavath <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Well, OTB provider plugin will be able to fetch and install otb > binaries. So > > users installing plugin is the extra step needed. > > 1. Install QGIS > > 2. install otb provider plugin > > 3. select/download && install otb package > > This sounds great - and all the more reason why (in my opinion) > publishing the provider as a separate plugin is appropriate. A lot of > users will only have to make a couple of clicks and have a fully > functional OTB install and processing provider ready to go. > > On the other hand, I don't think this approach is suitable at all for > a core provider. What would you propose to do for Linux users? OTB may > or may not be available in their distro's repos (e.g. it's not > available for Fedora), so how would the plugin install the dependency > in this case? Or what about for Windows users who do not have > administrative rights to install software? > did you checked this package? https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org//packages/OTB-6.4.0-Linux64.run and others? https://www.orfeo-toolbox.org//packages/ We don't need admin rights to install otb. just unzip and it works. Same for mac and linux. The dependency is libc and libc++ runtime. And I think any centos6 is our reference platforms. Issues you asked is why we introduced binary packages for OTB. > > I personally don't think there's any way to guarantee that OTB (or > SAGA for that matter) is available for all QGIS installs, even if we > can manually trigger a download and install via a plugin. And if they > aren't, then we make things harder for our users, QGIS trainers and > support providers -- the feature set of a standard QGIS install will > vary greatly depending on the platform it's installed upon and user's > privileges on that platform. > > Nyall > -- Regards, Rashad
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