[Qgis-developer] GGL2 - QGIS integration

[Etienne Tourigny]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Vincent Picavet
<vincent.ml at oslandia.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Le mercredi 20 juin 2012 16:08:19, Etienne Tourigny a écrit :
>> In case of linux systems, I would think that most (if not all)
>> installations include java, so it's not that much of a requirement.
>> It might be more complicated in the case of windows and mac.
>
> That's really not the case as far as the linux systems I use are concerned...
> A java dependency for QGIS would really be a pain.

 I guess I meant most desktop systems, anyway it depends on the user.
 For example, linux mint 12 installs java by itself.

>
>> It would be interesting to have a separate qgis-framework package (or
>> similar name) that includes sextante and its dependencies and modules
>> like GGL.
>> That way you can install qgis without these requirements.
>
> In any case, you will not want to have a dependency between sextante and all
> of its modules.
> They are numerous, and growing. It should be the responsibility of the user to
> install the modules by itself to enable the sextante support with this module.
> Otherwise the next QGIS installer will be 1.5Gb and a nightmare to package.

I was referring to a catch-all package that would simplify
installations, although perhaps it's overdoing it.

And I meant this as an additional package (say qgis-framework) which
is separate from the main installer and has a few dependencies - each
of which is an individual package.
This probably makes more sense in linux (.deb/rpm/whatever) and
osgeo4w though. But it would come at a cost for the maintainters.

Cheers
Etienne


>
> Vincent
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Etienne
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Tim Sutton <lists at linfiniti.com> wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 1:05 PM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> Are there any plans to make a C++ or Python port of GGL? From looking
>> >>> at the website it looks like the user will need java on their system
>> >>> to use it?
>> >>
>> >> AFAIU the plan are to keep it in Java, at now. The QGis integration idea
>> >> are:
>> >>
>> >> 1 - a plugin to "serve" QGis as a GIS to GGL2 (read/load layers)
>> >> 2 - (if they're will be foundings) run GGL2 commands from Sextante.
>> >>
>> >> It would be nice to have a C++/Python porting, but it would require a
>> >> lot of coding, I suppose...
>> >
>> > I guess its obvious why I asked, but in case it isn't, GGL seems
>> > really cool, like something that we should ship with QGIS and SEXTANTE
>> > but the java depency will probably always relegate it to a non-bundled
>> > functionality (unless we can get broad agreement to make java a
>> > dependency on your system when installing QGIS).
>> >
>> > Regards
>> >
>> > Tim
>> >
>> >> giovanni
>> >>
>> >>> Regards
>> >>>
>> >>> Tim
>> >>>
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