[Portugal] [Fwd: [Qgis-developer] SAGA Interface for QGIS - Final GSoC Report]

[Giovanni Manghi]

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> From: Camilo Polymeris <cpolymeris at gmail.com>
> To: soc at lists.osgeo.org, qgis-developer
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> saga-gis-developer at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Qgis-developer] SAGA Interface for QGIS - Final GSoC Report
> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:02:00 -0400
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am happy to say that this week saw many improvements in the QGIS
> Processing Framework and the interface to SAGA.
> 
> Primarily, raster input and output works now, thanks to help from SAGA
> developer Volker Wichmann. Single band local QGIS rasters are
> transparently converted to SAGA format using GDAL, processed, and
> imported back into QGIS. Many things could be improved and features
> added, but the basic functionality is there.
> 
> To assess the progress of the interface, I have written a small
> script, which checks module support, as determined by parameter
> implementation. The programmatically collected stats, indicating
> support for 170 modules (40%) are published in the Module Support[1]
> wiki page, while the Tested Modules[2] page, maintained by Paolo,
> contains a list of SAGA modules that have actually been tested.
> 
> Work on a settings dialog has started. It is still unclear how many
> and which settings should be left to the user. Also on the GUI side,
> an about dialog was implemented, which displays the new processing
> icon by Robert Szczepanek.
> 
> In an effort to be consistent with the QGIS terminology, the string
> "raster" is now automatically substituted for instances of "grid" in
> each SAGA module's text: Names, tags, parameters and descriptions.
> 
> Less visible to the user, but still important, the SAGA code has been
> refactored a little. Work is still pending on this issue.
> Additionally, the plugin's objects are now managed in a cleaner way.
> 
> Validator and default value bugs have been fixed. Further testing is necessary.
> 
> Finally, due to rising interest in interfacing other libraries (GRASS,
> OTB) I have published the API documentation[3] on the framework and
> started writing a Developer's Tutorial[4].
> 
> Google Summer of Code 2011 is almost over, but it is my intention to
> continue maintaining this software, first focusing on polishing the
> available code and later adding more features: Support for further
> parameter types, interactive modules, and module instance
> serialization, among many other proposed.
> 
> 
> Best regards & thanks a lot for the help,
> 
> 
> Camilo
> 
> [1] https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki/Module-Support
> [2] https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki/Tested-Modules
> [3] http://polymeris.github.com/qgis/processing.html
> [4] https://github.com/polymeris/qgis/wiki/Developer%27s-Tutorial
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