[pdal] Building PDAL 1.3 on Debian testing

[Bradley Chambers]

Yes, filters.pmf is the filters.ground replacement. I'd be happy to hear
feedback on filters.mongus and filters.smrf, which are both ground
segmentation alternatives. Both should be treated as alpha implementations
however.

Brad

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 10:37 PM Jean-Francois Prieur <jfprieur at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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