[Qgis-developer] (Yet again) SAGA support badly broken in QGIS

[Alexander Bruy]

If we decide to go this way, I'd suggest to put SAGA algs
into QGIS analysis library, so we can add Python bindings
to them too. Also in this case everyone can access them
similarly to qgis.core and qgis.gui.

2016-06-01 12:57 GMT+03:00 Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com>:
> I am familiar with SAGA source code, and algorithms are independent
> and self contained, very modular structure, so it should be easy to
> use them. There is a lot of work in there, since the number of
> algorithms is very large, but it can be a progressive thing. Having
> the in the QGIS source code would be fantastic.
>
> If we decide to go in this direction, we can maybe get rid of the SAGA
> provider in core, and have it as a separate plugin (and maybe a ship
> SAGA itself with the plugin??), for those wanting to run SAGA itself.
> In core we would add native Processing algorithms that would use the
> QGIS native functionality that we clone from SAGA. There is no need to
> port everything, at first just the most common ones or those that have
> no equivalent in other providers. Better a reduced set of robust and
> commonly used algs than a large colelction of them that is not so
> stable as it should.
>
> Not sure how we can tackle this, but definitely it is an option to
> consider. It would solve all issues with format conversions, etc... so
> it's clearly worth a try.
>
> My 2 cents
>
> Cheerss
>
>
> 2016-06-01 11:11 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>> Il 01/06/2016 10:51, Tom Chadwin ha scritto:
>>
>>> Would it be fair to say that non-Windows users are more likely to be able to
>>> handle other ways around this issue?
>>
>> not in an easy and clean way.
>> Better a general solution than a hack.
>> All the best.
>>
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