Thanks Etienne, that is very helpful.
Neil
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012 08:44:01 -0300, Etienne Tourigny wrote:
Hi
On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 6:24 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
I am in the process of selecting a set up for QGIS. I have Windows
and Apple
OS but I think I will plump for Linux because it will give me the
widest
distribution options. But I have afew questions :
a) I am assuming that if I write a python module for QGIS in Linux,
I'll
need to adapt it for other OS? Obviously I would need to adapt any
other
components the module uses, such as databases, but code for QGIS
itself?
most plugins should work in all platforms, unless they contain
platform-specific code.
An exception is pyqwt (for plots) which does not work on OSX, but
that's not an issue.
b) I have been recommended to use Kubuntu by an experienced software
developer, but most of the user posts here and elsewhere refer to
Ubuntu..
does the choice have any impact on the opperation of QGIS or,
equally
importantly, the ease of getting advice on Q-GIS-xbuntu issues?
ubuntu/Kubuntu/Kinux Mint are fundamentally the same distrubution,
and
qgis packages are the same.
Up-to-date packages for qgis are installed via the ubuntugis-unstable
ppa (see the qgis download page).
But many users have had issues with the Unity desktop that comes
standard with ubuntu. So if you install kubuntu you will use the kde
(plasma) desktop instead of unity.
There is also Linux Mint which is very nice and based on ubuntu, and
uses either Cinnamon or Mate desktop.
A final note, is that you can install plain ubuntu and add other
desktops (kubuntu-desktop, cinnamon, mate) pretty easily. It really
depends on your tastes.
Etienne
Thanks
Neil
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