[GRASS-user] Report from ongoing GRASS GIS Community Sprint in Prague

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il 28/05/2012 16:38, Benjamin Ducke ha scritto:

> does not contain just another binding for SEXTANTE to QGIS (even
> though the SVN folder structure suggests this) -- Victor, please
> correct me if I am wrong here.

I can correct you :)

> Rather, it looks like it contains a complete re-write of SEXTANTE in
> Python (excluding the original SEXTANTE processing tools, which seem
> to be only available in their Java versions).

Some of the tools are being ported.

> I am entirely unsure how to further maintain a code base in two
> different programming languages and how to keep my own work
> on the GRASS/SAGA/R interfaces in Java synchronized with this.
> Any ideas welcome (but should probably be discussed on the SEXTANTE
> user mailing list).
> 
> As far as the GRASS code sprint is concerned, please consider
> that many people use SEXTANTE under gvSIG, OpenJUMP, GeoTools and
> other Java-based GIS at this point, and that they are just as
> interested in seeing the GRASS interface improved, as QGIS
> users are. For now, I will monitor the QGIS bug tracker and
> synchronize any relevant tickets manually with bugs.gvsigce.org.

I do not see an alternative to manual sync (quite painful and inefficient, I know).
All the best.
-- 
Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
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