[GRASS-user] r.in.lidar and v.in.lidar not available in GRASS 7.8.3 fc31 from copr

[Moritz Lennert]

On 22/06/20 09:51, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> (re-adding the user list)
> 
> [topic: r.in.lidar/v.in.lidar support on Fedora]
> 
> So, the liblas package on Fedora is lacking "liblas-config" which
> makes it unusable for GRASS GIS. Tthe maintainer of liblas in Fedora
> told me that we would need to support /usr/lib64/pkgconfig/liblas.pc
> but I have no time to tweak it. And, liblas is deprecated anyway and
> PDAL is the way to go.
> 
> I made some efforts in the last weeks to make PDAL an official Fedora
> and EPEL package (it is now available) and could activate that for
> GRASS GIS.
> We have v.in.pdal in the core system and r.in.pdal in addons.
> 
> And a new version of r.in.pdal awaits testing:
> https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/61
> 
> What do you think? Shall I switch to PDAL (see also
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1672170)?
> 

+1

Moritz