[Qgis-developer] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

Victor Olaya volayaf at gmail.com
Mon Apr 2 03:59:33 EDT 2012


Thanks Radim

That means that some distributions of QGIS might have a QT version
lower that 4.7? The one I am using works fine, so i gues is > 4.7. Is
there any way of checking it on the fly, so I can execute that line
only if the version is recent enough?

Thanks in advance

El día 1 de abril de 2012 22:14, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> escribió:
> JFYI,
>
> AttributeError: 'QLineEdit' object has no attribute 'setPlaceholderText'
>
> setPlaceholderText was introduced in Qt 4.7.
>
> QT_MIN_VERSION  in QGIS is 4.4.0.
>
> Radim
>
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:11 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> I am glad to announce that a first (tagged as 'experimental') version
>> SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released. It includes, among other things:
>>
>> -Full support for SAGA algorithms
>> -ftool(vector processes) and mmqgis algorithms (these are not only
>> added to be used directly, but also as real examples of how to create
>> new algorithms or migrate existing ones into the SEXTANTE platform)
>> -Support for user-defined R scripts
>> -Support for user defined Python scripts
>> -Graphical modeler
>> -Batch processing interface
>> -History
>>
>> You can download it using the QGIS plugin installer
>>
>> Please, read the manual before using the plugin. You can access it
>> selecting the "SEXTANTE help" option in the SEXTANTE menu.
>>
>> This version is still missing some functionalities, but should be
>> fully usable. Users should be particularly aware of the following
>> issues:
>>
>> -External applications (SAGA and R) have been tested mostly on
>> Windows, but not so much in Linux, so problems might appear on that
>> platform. No testing has been done at all under Mac OS.
>> -GRASS algorithms have been deactivated, in order to have a working
>> version as soon as possible. We hope to have GRASS incorporated into
>> the set of available algorithms pretty soon
>> -Although most algorithms support multiple formats for their ouput
>> layers, these are currently limited to tiff for raster layers,
>> shapefiles for vector layers and dbf files for tables. This can be
>> changed easily and will be done in a next version
>> -Calling external applications might not work if using layers such as
>> those coming from remote services or DB connections. Please, use just
>> file-based data by now (we are working on improving that as well, but
>> it might take time... ;-) )
>> -Using tables (and also opening those generated by geoalgorithms) is
>> still a bit in development, since there is no built-in default method
>> of opening independent tables. By now, attribute tables of vector
>> layers can be used, but only if these are in shapefile format (since
>> we can refer to the associated dbf file). We expect to change this
>> soon, probably creating some plugin to improve that handling of
>> independent tables (or if anyone can point us to an existing one that
>> can be coupled with SEXTANTE, that good be even better...)
>>
>> Once again, read the manual before trying it, as it will greatly help
>> you to understand SEXTANTE and what you can do with it.
>>
>> For developers: I know a lot of documentation is needed...hope to have
>> that solved soon (or at least start to solve it). A SEXTANTE for QGIS
>> developers manual is also on its way... there is already a mechanism
>> to create QGIS plugins that register new algorithms in SEXTANTE
>> (thanks to Alexander Bruy for the suggestion!), but still has to be
>> documented. I am currently working on an well documented example case,
>> to be released soon as well
>>
>> Of course, all bug reports and comments are welcome, since this is
>> still a beta version.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your interest.
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