[Qgis-user] SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released

[Gary Sherman]

On Mar 31, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Carlos Grohmann wrote:

> Hi, I couldn't find the sextant plugin in qgis 1.7 on mac os x. is it on http://mapserver.sk/~wonder/qgis/plugins-sandbox.xml? this repo is giving connection errors.
> 
> best
> 
It is in the new plugin repository (http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/plugins.xml). You must have enabled viewing of experimental plugins in the Options tab of the plugin installer in order to see it.


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> On Friday, 30 March 2012 at 18:19, Victor Olaya wrote:
> 
>>> One remark / request on concerning GRASS; as the GRASS algorithms are
>>> already available through the GRASS toolbox, the main thing for me would be
>>> to enable the use of GRASS raster and vector layers in all the SAGA (and
>>> other) modules. I assume this will be part of the working version you
>>> mention?
>> 
>> Well, the idea is just the opposite: to use any raster or vector layer
>> in GRASS, directly from QGIS. "Any" in this context means any "normal"
>> file-based layer. What you propose is just the opposite: to use GRASS
>> layers in other apps. This is something I plan to work on later. As I
>> mentioned in the release note, now SEXTANTE handles those "normal"
>> layers, but not others like layers from remote services, from DB
>> connections or "special" layers like GRASS ones. I hope to give
>> support for all that as well, so any layer than can be loaded into
>> QGIS can be passed to an external application transparently, with
>> SEXTANTE doing the necessary work of conversion or whatever is needed.
>> However, I will wait until this first version works fine before
>> starting that.
>> 
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-gary

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