[pdal] Building PDAL 1.3 on Debian testing

[Jean-Francois Prieur]

Apologies for the spam, I saw there is a filter.pmf which is obviously what
I am looking for.

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:32 PM Jean-Francois Prieur <jfprieur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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