[Qgis-developer] Sextante test drive

[William Kyngesburye]

On Apr 20, 2013, at 11:32 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

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> Il 20/04/2013 17:24, William Kyngesburye ha scritto:
>> Just a note: I'll be bundling OTB and SAGA in the OS X package.  I already have
>> code in sextante to automatically find the bundled copies.
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> Thank you so much for this. So, Victor, paths could be set up as defaults in all
> major platforms then, right?
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From what I could figure out, there is no need for a default for Linux since it inherits a shell environment and can execute commands without explicit paths (the $PATH is the default).

I don't know the details of the Windows environment, but there is a default path for GRASS, but none for SAGA, OTB or TauDEM.  Though I don't understand the python searching logic for the GRASS default.

>> Maybe I'll look again at Taudem.  I think when I looked at it a year ago I was put
>> off by Windows/Arc-centric nature of it.  ... ugh, just a quick browse of the
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> Bad stuff, agreed. However, taudem has been properly packaged in Debian main, so I
> suppose it can be brought to a reasonable state.
> BTW, is it supported by an active community? Has anyone tried to contact the authors
> suggestiong at least some basic fix?
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Latest source version is from Feb 2012, site mentions Arc 10.0.  No mention of any development group or forum, or source repository other than the download tarball.


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