[QGIS-Developer] Qgis-developer] Processing toolbox SAGA not working

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi Matteo,

> Hi Giovanni,
>
> I'm sneaking into this thread...
> On a linux machine and QGIS master, Processing reads only 1 algorithm of
> SAGA. Current version of SAGA installed is 2.3.1

the same on Windows/osgeo4w. And on Windows 2.3.1 is also broken on
2.18.7 that is far worst now (but 2.1.2 should still work fine).



> On sourceforge [0] I now see that SAGA version 4 (?!?) is already
> available. As I remember Processing will support the LTR version of
> SAGA... I'm confused on which version is (or will be) the LTR..
>
>
> If the version supported by Processing is different from the one
> provided by the repositories (in my case 2.3.1) do I need to compile the
> correct version by myself or in future the LTR version will be included
> in the repo and packages?
>
> Thanks for any clue!

SAGA is fast moving (as you say there is already a version 4) and we
know that frequently the name of tools or parameters are changed in
between versions, and this of course has proven very difficult for us
to keep the description files updated.

They have now a LTR version (I think is 2.3.*) and I personally don't
see any alternative for us if not sticking with it.

Linux users (I'm also a Linux user) will have to ask packagers to add
a saga ltr package to their distribution or find a way to
install/compile saga LTR in their systems.

cheers!

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