[Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

[Paulo van Breugel]

Great work! I am trying this on Linux, running in the same problem of 
wrong permission on the saga_batch_job.sh as reported before (I sent a 
separate email to the mailing list, having missed your announcement, 
sorry for that).

One remark / request on concerning GRASS; as the GRASS algorithms are 
already available through the GRASS toolbox, the main thing for me would 
be to enable the use of GRASS raster and vector layers in all the SAGA 
(and other) modules. I assume this will be part of the working version 
you mention?




On 03/29/2012 11:11 PM, Victor Olaya wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I am glad to announce that a first (tagged as 'experimental') version
> SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released. It includes, among other things:
>
> -Full support for SAGA algorithms
> -ftool(vector processes) and mmqgis algorithms (these are not only
> added to be used directly, but also as real examples of how to create
> new algorithms or migrate existing ones into the SEXTANTE platform)
> -Support for user-defined R scripts
> -Support for user defined Python scripts
> -Graphical modeler
> -Batch processing interface
> -History
>
> You can download it using the QGIS plugin installer
>
> Please, read the manual before using the plugin. You can access it
> selecting the "SEXTANTE help" option in the SEXTANTE menu.
>
> This version is still missing some functionalities, but should be
> fully usable. Users should be particularly aware of the following
> issues:
>
> -External applications (SAGA and R) have been tested mostly on
> Windows, but not so much in Linux, so problems might appear on that
> platform. No testing has been done at all under Mac OS.
> -GRASS algorithms have been deactivated, in order to have a working
> version as soon as possible. We hope to have GRASS incorporated into
> the set of available algorithms pretty soon
> -Although most algorithms support multiple formats for their ouput
> layers, these are currently limited to tiff for raster layers,
> shapefiles for vector layers and dbf files for tables. This can be
> changed easily and will be done in a next version
> -Calling external applications might not work if using layers such as
> those coming from remote services or DB connections. Please, use just
> file-based data by now (we are working on improving that as well, but
> it might take time... ;-) )
> -Using tables (and also opening those generated by geoalgorithms) is
> still a bit in development, since there is no built-in default method
> of opening independent tables. By now, attribute tables of vector
> layers can be used, but only if these are in shapefile format (since
> we can refer to the associated dbf file). We expect to change this
> soon, probably creating some plugin to improve that handling of
> independent tables (or if anyone can point us to an existing one that
> can be coupled with SEXTANTE, that good be even better...)
>
> Once again, read the manual before trying it, as it will greatly help
> you to understand SEXTANTE and what you can do with it.
>
> For developers: I know a lot of documentation is needed...hope to have
> that solved soon (or at least start to solve it). A SEXTANTE for QGIS
> developers manual is also on its way... there is already a mechanism
> to create QGIS plugins that register new algorithms in SEXTANTE
> (thanks to Alexander Bruy for the suggestion!), but still has to be
> documented. I am currently working on an well documented example case,
> to be released soon as well
>
> Of course, all bug reports and comments are welcome, since this is
> still a beta version.
>
> Thanks in advance for your interest.
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