[QGIS-Developer] Keeping OTB algorithm in qgis processing

[Rashad Kanavath]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 7:31 AM, Alexander Bruy <alexander.bruy at gmail.com>
wrote:

> BTW, there is also another possible issue to consider. Where users
> will report tickets related to OTB algorithms and who will address
> them?


Come on!. Users already reports issue to OTB if that is the problem.
Do you know any bugs fixed in OTB processing by QGIS team?
To be fair, the processing plugin is in qgis.  And no matter how you
explain some users doesn't listen.
Are you saying this as a problem or something plugin would solve?


2018-02-05 5:43 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <nyall.dawson at gmail.com>:
> > On 4 February 2018 at 22:27, Rashad Kanavath <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Well, OTB provider plugin will be able to fetch and install otb
> binaries. So
> >> users installing plugin is the extra step needed.
> >> 1. Install QGIS
> >> 2. install otb provider plugin
> >> 3. select/download && install otb package
> >
> > This sounds great - and all the more reason why (in my opinion)
> > publishing the provider as a separate plugin is appropriate. A lot of
> > users will only have to make a couple of clicks and have a fully
> > functional OTB install and processing provider ready to go.
> >
> > On the other hand, I don't think this approach is suitable at all for
> > a core provider. What would you propose to do for Linux users? OTB may
> > or may not be available in their distro's repos (e.g. it's not
> > available for Fedora), so how would the plugin install the dependency
> > in this case? Or what about for Windows users who do not have
> > administrative rights to install software?
> >
> > I personally don't think there's any way to guarantee that OTB (or
> > SAGA for that matter) is available for all QGIS installs, even if we
> > can manually trigger a download and install via a plugin. And if they
> > aren't, then we make things harder for our users, QGIS trainers and
> > support providers -- the feature set of a standard QGIS install will
> > vary greatly depending on the platform it's installed upon and user's
> > privileges on that platform.
> >
> > Nyall
> > _______________________________________________
> > QGIS-Developer mailing list
> > QGIS-Developer at lists.osgeo.org
> > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
> > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
>
>
>
> --
> Alexander Bruy
>



-- 
Regards,
   Rashad
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/attachments/20180205/d413b7a0/attachment.html>