[Qgis-user] Mac OS X, Sextante and other plugins or the forgotten users..

[Noli Sicad]

I should suppose to work with Mac OS X as well.

Where did you get this statement?

 - *SEXTANTE plugin for QGIS is not made for Mac, only for Windows and Linux*.

You should add SEXTANTE repository for the plugin.

Visit http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/sextante/ for details.

Add it and click experimental.

Noli

On 4/1/12, gene <martin.laloux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a user of QGIS (and GRASS GIS and gvSIG, and...) on Mac OS X and not a
> C, C + + or Java developer : I use Python in all developments and I'm happy
> because I can do anything in the Python consoles of the softwares. I am also
> a member of OSGeo-Fr.
>
> I simply note that there are more and more people using these software on
> Mac OS X but everything is done for Linux and Windows, without even mention
> Mac OS X as if it did not exist for the developers.
>
> Only one person, William Kyngesburye (thank to him who saves us) provides
> all these softwares for the Mac Users (and also C. Barton for GRASS GIS) and
> the port of GvSIG is still "experimental"...
> *SEXTANTE plugin for QGIS is not made for Mac, only for Windows and Linux*.
> There is no SAGA for Mac, for example, and I can install SEXTANTE but the
> SAGA algorithms does not work (even the R algorithms does not work while I
> can use R in GRASS GIS or QGIS without problems).
> Yet the new *gvSIG Community Edition* has an extension SEXTANTE with SAGA
> modules that work on Mac.
>
> So what is the role of Mac OS X users (not developers) if developers use
> Linux and the majority of users are using Windows or Linux ?  Tell the
> students or beginners , change of OS ?
>
> I do not want to offend anyone but most users are not developers and the
> only thing they want is to use the program. *In the case of QGIS for Mac,
> all works well (thanks William) but there are problems with some plugins* I
> always try to transmit the bugs encountered to William Kyngesburye but I
> understand  he can not solve everything alone, especially if it's problems
> with plugins. As I know Python, I can solve some but not all.
> I also understand that most developers are on Linux but Mac OS X is also a
> Unix (FreeBSD based), unlike Windows.
>
> So, what can we do to help if we are not programmers ?
>
>
>
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