[pdal] What's wrong with pdal density?

[Howard Butler]

> On Dec 3, 2019, at 11:59 AM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for encouraging me to try conda for the first time ever. Nice experience. Also good news, with version pdal 2.0.1 (git-version: Release) the density command worked fine.

Good to hear. QGIS is available on Conda Forge too, if that's what had you using OSGeo4W...

> 
> You seem to be the maintainer of these packages http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/x86_64/release/pdal/, I wonder if I dare to give a hint...

The PDAL team no longer maintains any OSGeo4W packages. We found it too difficult to keep the dependencies controlled. Conda Forge-based builds are not so much better in that regard, but there is a much larger framework of libraries and developers using it. Conda binaries also give us distribution with all three primary platforms, and the conda platform is integrated into development environments quite cleanly (Visual Studio Code being a primary target for us).

I have not removed the OSGeo4W builds because I did not know what OSGeo4W software might have been using them.

Howard