[Qgis-developer] Difficulties with the compilation of the plugin Globe

[Matthias Kuhn]

On 09/11/16 12:51, Bas Couwenberg wrote:

> On 2016-11-09 11:26, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
>> For more details, have a look at this discussion which provides some
>> insights and an experimental patch:
>>
>> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Future-of-the-Globe-plugin-in-QGIS-3-with-Qt5-td5288268.html
>>
>
> That's about osgEarth 2.8, which is still in Debian experimental
> because QGIS doesn't support it yet, not even QGIS 3.0 which benefits
> from the Qt5 support in osgEarth 2.8.
>
> QGIS 2.14 LTR doesn't support osgEarth 2.7 which is in Debian
> testing/unstable and hence the globe plugin is disabled in those
> distributions.
>
> QGIS >= 2.16 does support osgEarth 2.7, but not 2.5 in Debian jessie
> and QGIS disables the globe plugin for the unsupported osgEarth versions.
What a mess...

I wish osgEarth one day receives some sort of at least semi-stable API.

Matthias