[GRASS-user] SAGA and GRASS

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Jose, 

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 09:01:47 +0200 "Jose Gomez-Dans"
<jgomezdans at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/4/06, Wouter Buytaert <wouter.buytaert at tiscali.be> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I came accross SAGA GIS at
> >
> > http://www.saga-gis.uni-goettingen.de/html/index.php
> >
> > Looks a very promising open source GIS application. Does anyone
> > knows how it compares to GRASS?
> 
> 
> SAGA is quite nice. For one, it is simple to start using it. The
> previous beta was fairly unstable but useable. At the moment, I
> believe they have few developers, but the architecture is quite
> robust. It is very easy to code your own modules based on some
> templates that they provide.
> 
> It is a very nice program, and it works fine both in Windows and in
> Linux.

Have you managed to compile it on Linux? I could not manage it with the
current makefiles, but probably did not try hard enough. Some paths are
hardcoded in the  makefiles.linux.

Best
	Stephan
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