[Qgis-developer] Re: [Qgis-user] Is there a way of installing the qgis plugin for ORFEO Toolbox (OTB)?

[Alex Mandel]

We could look to the way R does this. On Windows and Mac(most of the
time) it will pull a binary from the server, on a linux box it will
usually run a compilation for your system and throw an error if you
don't have the build tools installed.

I'm not sure on the particular inner workings but it shouldn't be too
hard to read up on the source of the R command install.packages() for
someone who understands C (Though it might be written in R). We could
always right the tool in python that calls the compiler.

Thanks,
Alex

On 01/27/2011 09:59 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> There is a growing number of C++ plugins that appear interesting and
> useful (OTB would be a huge improvement over qgis current capabilities),
> but are more or less inaccessible to end users.
> Perhaps we should devise a strategy for these.
> All the best.
> 
> Il giorno mer, 26/01/2011 alle 09.56 -0800, Alex Mandel ha scritto:
>> On 01/26/2011 09:01 AM, M.E.Dodd wrote:
>>> I can find their website and the full Monteverdi program but can't work out how to install the qgis plugin, any suggestions?
>