[Qgis-user] R example scripts in QGIS Sextante Toolbox: complains about SAGA

[Agustin Lobo]

One of the main and nicest characteristics of QGIS is that
the core keeps a relatively small (although not that small any more)
number of functions that are stable
and then the plugins provide a cloud of many (ever growing) tools that
are being continuously developed. This
could have been a nightmare for users but it's actually close to
heaven because upgrading these tools
is so fast and easy that actually makes QGIS and excellent arena for
the interaction of developers and users.
No other GIS software provides such an environment.

Therefore, I'm concerned any time important improvements or fixes are
relegated "to svn", as this is out
of the reach of the regular user. Users do not even know what svn is.
If Sextante is going to become an important part of the geoprocessing
with qgis, keeping the traditional
simplicity and immediateness of installing fixes of qgis plugins
should be an important goal.

If no other alternative is possible (I hope this is not the case) ,
maybe all users should learn few svn commands, but in such a case
those commands should be in the User's Manual.

Many thanks for the new version that you announce.

Agus

2012/5/7 Victor Olaya <volayaf at gmail.com>:
> Agustin,
>
> They are inmediatly available in the SVN version, but not in a new
> release, at least not until I manually create one and upload it. This
> task could be automated, but currently it is not. I will try to have a
> new version today, since there are already a few interesting changes
>
> Regarding R, SEXTANTE makes a very easy test to see if it is
> installed, just trying to execute it with the "CMD BATCH" argument
> without a batch file and checking the output it gets. It shoud be
> something like "no input file". Could you try that on your command
> line and tell me what you get?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> 2012/5/7 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>:
>> Il 07/05/2012 11:31, Agustin Lobo ha scritto:
>>> Victor,
>>> yes, I'm using ubuntu 10.04 as mentioned. And R works.
>>> What do regular users have to do in order to get the SVN version? compiling?
>>> If this is a python plugin (SEXTANTE Geoprocessing platform for QGIS),
>>> should not the bug fixes be immediately available to users by
>>> installing the new version of the plugin?
>>>
>>
>> svn up is your friend here ;)
>>
>> --
>> Paolo Cavallini
>> See: http://www.faunalia.it/pc
>>
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