I don't know if this might be of relevance, but it looks like they have made saga work on FreeBSD. I do not know if FreeBSD suffers from the same wxPython limitation, but I'm guessing it does not. Perhaps this will prove helpful, though: http://sourceforge.net/projects/saga-gis/forums/forum/790705/topic/3518550
Cheers, John On Nov 12, 2011, at 7:42 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote: > ooohhh, disabling python doesn't help - it's SAGA itself that needs wx for > its API (wx-config is for the wx libraries, not wxpython). Then the GUI and > Python API is built off wxpython. Or something like that... > > On Nov 12, 2011, at 12:08 PM, Agustin Lobo wrote: > >> what about using saga through qgis? The plugin on linux seems to work >> pretty well (Faunalia has performed some serious tests for a bunch of >> modules). Would that not avoid the wxpython issue? >> Agus >> >> 2011/11/12 William Kyngesburye <[email protected]>: >>> Well, it's looks like SAGA is going to be a tough one on OS X. >>> >>> One big issue for me is that it doesn't support wxPython (for the GUI) 2.9 >>> yet. 2.9 is needed on Snow Leopard and Lion to make a fully-64bit SAGA. >>> But it should compile fine with a 32bit wxPython 2.8. I just prefer to >>> have things keep up with OS X. >>> >>> Configuration is strange - unlike all other configurations I've seen, SAGA >>> configure does NOT detect or have any way to specify locations for >>> dependent libraries and software, like wxPython, GDAL, PROJ, ... It either >>> expects libraries to be in standard system paths (/usr, /usr/local), or >>> finds package config scripts (wx-config, gdal-config, ...) during >>> compilation. >>> >>> This means adding stuff to your PATH to be able to find wxPython at all >>> (the "official" distribution puts it in a subfolder of /usr/local/lib, so >>> wx-config is not in the PATH) or any of my frameworks. For those that >>> don't have config scripts (ie PROJ), it will probably mean messing around >>> with CFLAGS and LDFLAGS - I didn't get past the wxPython 2.9 problem to be >>> able to try anything else. >>> >>> On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:26 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote: >>> >>>> After a quick look, I don't think the python version is a problem - there >>>> is no mention of a minimum Python. >>>> >>>> SAGA has a lot of compiled C++, it's not just Python, so you need binaries >>>> or compile yourself. wxPython is also required, for the GUI. >>>> >>>> I can look into how to do the compilation on OS X, and may even make an >>>> installer package, though I support Leopard any more with my packages so >>>> you'd still have to compile it yourself. >>>> >>>> On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Daniel Alejandro Pacheco wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi everythere, >>>>> >>>>> I am having some trouble in the moment when I want install some plugins >>>>> that I need, in the beginning I thought that is because the plugins are >>>>> broken, but later I understood that is because first, I need to install >>>>> Phyton bindings for SAGA if I want run this plugins, the BIG problem is >>>>> that in the webpage QGIS SAGA interface wiki I can´t find how to install >>>>> it in Macintosh Leopard, I reviewed other tutorials, and in none mention >>>>> the issue. My question is how can solve this problem?? I think that maybe >>>>> I need update my version of Phyton to 2.6, because OSX Leopard has Phyton >>>>> version 2.5, how can I do it? And I don´t know if this update solve this >>>>> problem. >>>>> >>>>> Maybe someone can help me. >>>>> Tks for you help >>>>> >>>>> Best Regards >>>>> >>>>> Daniel > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > [Trillian] What are you supposed to do WITH a maniacally depressed robot? > > [Marvin] You think you have problems? What are you supposed to do if you > ARE a maniacally depressed robot? No, don't try and answer, I'm 50,000 times > more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer... > > - HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
