[Qgis-developer] Processing & SAGA 2.2.2

[Victor Olaya]

Ok, then we can cherry pick the commits that improve SAGA support, to
backport them to the 2.8 branch. Makes sense



2015-12-24 8:06 GMT+01:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
> Il 24/12/2015 07:46, Victor Olaya ha scritto:
>> I think that changes in Processing to support newer SAGA versions have
>> not been backported to the 2.8.x series, which explains that.
>>
>> However, with SAGA being the less predictable software ever having
>> tons of API breaks in each version...I dont think our LTR should move
>> the supported SAGA version. If 1.8 had support for SAGA 2.1, it should
>> stick to that for all 2.8.x, and actually the installers and bundles
>> should not advance the version and ship that same version of SAGA
>> always. And if not using a bundled version, the user should install
>> the supported version of SAGA, not a more recent one, since that will
>> probably compromise the stability.
>
> Hi Victor,
> thanks for the response. Unfortunately, this holds true only for distros
> where we have complete control over the stack (only Win, I believe). On
> Debian, as in my case, packages get updated all the time, so we really
> have no choice. I acknowledge the issues with saga changes; on the other
> hand, supporting newer versions on more context will help us spotting
> issues and fixing them earlier.
> Of course, the alternative is to fork saga and keep and internal stable
> version. I noticed, however, that currently there seems to be more
> activity than in the past, so forking will be bad:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/saga-gis/code-0/commit_browser
> All the best.
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