[pdal] Building PDAL 1.3 on Debian testing

[Jean-Francois Prieur]

Will give the 1.3 packages a spin when they are available, thanks again for
all the updates.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:30 PM Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> On 09/08/2016 10:18 PM, Howard Butler wrote:
> >
> >> On Sep 8, 2016, at 3:16 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg <sebastic at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 09/08/2016 08:54 PM, Jean-Francois Prieur wrote:
> >>> I saw that there was a PDAL 1.2 package for Debian testing but it
> >>> is not built with PCL so it does not have the ground filter that I
> need.
> >>
> >> FWIW, the pdal package in Debian disabled the PCL plugin in pdal
> >> (1.1.0-5) because that pulls VTK into the dependency chain, and the VTK
> >> packages in Debian are not very well maintained.
> >>
> >> Having the VTK packages in the dependency chain makes the package very
> >> prone to release critical bugs which threaten the removal of the package
> >> from testing and subsequently from the next stable release.
> >>
> >> GRASS will soon depend on PDAL and this package is too important to not
> >> have in a Debian stable release.
> >
> > Brad Chambers has ported nearly all of the interesting filters that were
> PCL-based into PDAL proper at PDAL 1.3.0, so there won't be a lot of
> functionality drop-off by not having PCL available.
> >
> > The biggest missing item of missing PCL would be PCD read/write support.
>
> That's great news!
>
> The GRASS developers also mentioned the lack of the ground filter in the
> Debian PDAL packages, so it would seem the 1.3.0 packages would suit
> their needs too.
>
> Speaking of 1.3.0, the PDAL 1.3.0 packages should migrate to testing
> tomorrow.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Bas
>
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