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

[Nathan Woodrow]

Hey,

+1 for just bundling it on a fixed version. Moving targets are not ideal
and in this case seems to be pretty bad.

We will update it when the time comes.

- Nathan

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Tim Sutton <tim at kartoza.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
>
> On 31 May 2016, at 20:44, Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My opinion about this (and getting stronger each time, since the
> situation is getting worse...) is that we have only two solutions:
>
> 1) fork SAGA and have QGIS depend on that forked software, which we
> will (in principle) not upgrade.
> 2) embed a fixed version of SAGA, and use only that one. SAGA should
> be treated like a library: we support a given version, and not all
> version of it. If you want to use a different one, you cant (just like
> QGIS uses Python2 and a user cannot use Python3)
>
> I will be happy to discuss about this.
>
>
> Yes I chatted with Victor about this at the HF and if we want processing
> to become something everyone can depend on to work reliably in their
> workflows then his way seems like a very good approach. Same approach for
> SAGA etc.
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> 2016-05-31 20:01 GMT+02:00 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>
> Hi all,
> SAGA dev team have changed (2.2.7) once more a crucial parameter [0], so
> raster commands (probably all) are broken in QGIS/Processing.
> IMHO it is infeasible to chase breaking changes in point releases, so I
> suggest either saga devs stop breaking compatibility, except for major
> releases, or Debian stop upgrading the package not to break qgis support.
> Opinions most welcome.
> All the best.
> ===
> [0]
> 2016-05-31T17:54:27     0       SAGA execution commands
>                        io_gdal 0 -TRANSFORM 1 -INTERPOL 0 -GRIDS
>
> "/tmp/processingf62696a290e44432ac8de6028ba6582c/be2c1f4c868e48a79eb2098c6a769cfc/InterpolatedRST.sgrd"
> -FILES
>
> "/tmp/processingf62696a290e44432ac8de6028ba6582c/a8fde485740144b7a3218a71f41b2168/elevation.tif"
> ...
> Risultato della console di esecuzione di SAGA
>                        Unknown option 'INTERPOL'
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