[Qgis-developer] OTB and LiDAR tools as separate plugins

[jrmorreale_ml at enoreth.net]

Le 2017-01-30 19:24, Victor Olaya a écrit :
> One good thing that we have been discussing, related to this move, is
> that for LiDAR tools, it should be possible to have a plugin that has
> not just the code of the Processign provider, but the binaries as
> well, so installing the plugin would add the algorithms to Processing
> without any need to configure the paths to LASTools and FUSION
> binaries, since they can be harcoded. If there is a change in the
> binaries (such as an update), and the provider code has to be changed,
> a new release can be made, independently of the QGIS release cycle
> (unlike it happens now)
> 
> I think this is an interesting topic to discuss, and that's why I
> wanted to send this email to get more feedback.
> 
> Thanks for your ideas!

One thing to keep in mind is that not all the LIDAR tools are open 
sources, 2/3 of the LAStools aren't and slightly distort the output 
after certain point limits are exceeded. My opinion is that QGIS 
shouldn't ship or assist the distribution of closed binaries.