[Qgis-developer] fTools and GdalTools: sextante vs original plugins

Anita Graser anitagraser at gmx.at
Thu Apr 18 10:01:08 PDT 2013


Hi Agus,

You can get Sextante 1.0.8. It works well with QGIS 1.8. I've been using  
it for months now.
Only issue is that it has to be installed manually because Plugin  
Installer always fetches 1.0.9.

Anita


Am 18.04.2013, 18:45 Uhr, schrieb Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>:

> Victor,
> I know this is about >= 1.9, that's is the point:
> I want to stress the contradiction about asking for feedback while
> the tools cannot be tested on the stable version that most users use.
> Qgis has an extraordinary feature:
> users can test experimental tools developed as plugins while keeping the
> stable core. If Sextante were working on the stable release, (either
> by making sextante work
> on 1.8, which is probably not possible, or by having released an
> stable 1.9 ) you
> would be having a lot more of feedback from users.
>
>  Agus
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Agustin
>>
>> SEXTANTE now only works on 1.9 (to become 2.0 soon...), but all this
>> discussion is about tools in versions  >= 2.0. So those users that
>> work with the stable version will have SEXTANTE in their stable 2.0
>>
>> I agree with the need of that c++ conversion. Once that is ready,
>> wrapping from SEXTANTE is trivial.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Victor
>>
>> 2013/4/18 Werner Macho <werner.macho at gmail.com>:
>>> hi!
>>>
>>> If I remember correct Carson Farmer startet to bring the algorithms  
>>> into a
>>> cpp library (which would be a good and fast choice i think)
>>> I'd welcome having fast and reliable algorithms in cpp .. So I agree  
>>> with
>>> Agustin - very welcome work..
>>>
>>> regards
>>> Werner
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Agustin Lobo <alobolistas at gmail.com>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would add that this conversion of key tools from python to c++
>>>> should be a priority in qgis developement. Many
>>>> critical operations fail or never end in real life (size beyond  
>>>> limits of
>>>> demo
>>>> datasets)  cases of study. Thus Vinayan work would be greatly  
>>>> welcomed by
>>>> users.
>>>> Agus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Alexander Bruy
>>>> <alexander.bruy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> > On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
>>>> > vinayan <vinayan123 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> I think it is best to have maximum algorithms available in c++  
>>>> ap,  in
>>>> >> the
>>>> >> analysis module(i see that some are already available)..I would be
>>>> >> willing
>>>> >> to contribute to it if required
>>>> >
>>>> > All fTools functions are in Python. C++ implementation in analysis
>>>> > lib needs review and maybe some refactoring to support selected
>>>> > features and memory layers.
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > Alexander Bruy
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