[pdal] [EXTERNAL] Re: What's wrong with pdal density?

[Newcomb, Doug]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 1:43 PM Howard Butler <howard at hobu.co> wrote:

>
>
> > 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.
>

I believe that GRASS may be using them, but that may be problematic with
the transition to proj 6 and gdal 3.





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