[pdal] Building PDAL 1.3 on Debian testing

[Jean-Francois Prieur]

I just upgraded to Debian testing, the PDAL installed is now 1.3.0 but no
filter.ground in the --drivers listing. There is the new filters.mongus
which I will try however.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 4:32 PM Jean-Francois Prieur <jfprieur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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