[Qgis-developer] Re: [saga-gis-developer] SAGA Interface for QGIS - Final GSoC Report

[Johan Van de Wauw]

Perhaps try removing these libtool helper files (*.la). You don't need
them anyway.

Johan

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin at gwdg.de> wrote:
> On 21.08.2011 03:02 (UTC+1), Camilo Polymeris wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>
> Hello Camilo,
>
>> I am happy to say that this week saw many improvements in the QGIS
>> Processing Framework and the interface to SAGA.
>
> thank you very much for this important framework and interface.
>
> I am SAGA GIS and Quantum GIS on FreeBSD. Both work well on this
> platform as standalones, but there is a real problem when using QGIS
> with the SAGA Module Interface.
>
> SAGA GIS is built with python bindings, so it supports python scripting
> (tested). QGIS has installed the Processing Framework Manager and is
> restarted. After installing the SAGA Module Interface and restarting
> QGIS the following message appears on the shell in an endless loop. QGIS
> hangs on showing the logo and tries to load modules.
>
> ------------------------------------
> 07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format07:34:39: Error: /usr/local/lib/saga/libtin_tools.la: invalid file
> format[..snip..]
> ------------------------------------
>
> QGIS is not usable for me with the SAGA Module Interface installed, so I
> have to remove the SAGA plugin from .qgis directory.
>
> Do you have any hint what is going on here?
>
> Your help is really appreciated.
> Rainer Hurling
>
>
>> 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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