[Qgis-developer] Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS plugin

[Paolo Cavallini]

Il giorno mar, 22/03/2011 alle 08.42 +0100, Soeren Gebbert ha scritto: 
> Indeed it is currently not user friendly to install and configure a
> WPS GRASS GIS environment and GRASS does not have a WPS server
> included. But GRASS GIS 7 supports WPS server by providing the
> capability of creating WPS XML process descriptions for every module.
> And there is the wps-grass-bridge which implements direct GRASS GIS 7
> back-end support for PyWPS and ZOO WPS. The 52N WPS server uses the
> wps-grass-bridge to implement GRASS GIS support too.
> 
> My hope is that i.e. 52N will provide a graphical installer for there
> WPS GRASS GIS 7 and Sextante solution to make the deployment and use
> of a WPS server quite simple.

Hi all.
Thanks for the suggestion. However, IMHO requiring the installation of a
WPS server, plus the configuration of all modules, is a rather heavy
requirement, and it will make the installation of the whole beast much
more cumbersome.
Furthermore, 52N is in java, which will make things only worse.
In addition, this does not seem a short term solution, and I think we
need something working smoothly *now*.
All the best.
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Paolo Cavallini: http://www.faunalia.it/pc