Great job, congratulations!
-SL Il giorno gio, 29/03/2012 alle 23.11 +0200, Victor Olaya ha scritto: > Hi all > > I am glad to announce that a first (tagged as 'experimental') version > SEXTANTE for QGIS has been released. It includes, among other things: > > -Full support for SAGA algorithms > -ftool(vector processes) and mmqgis algorithms (these are not only > added to be used directly, but also as real examples of how to create > new algorithms or migrate existing ones into the SEXTANTE platform) > -Support for user-defined R scripts > -Support for user defined Python scripts > -Graphical modeler > -Batch processing interface > -History > > You can download it using the QGIS plugin installer > > Please, read the manual before using the plugin. You can access it > selecting the "SEXTANTE help" option in the SEXTANTE menu. > > This version is still missing some functionalities, but should be > fully usable. Users should be particularly aware of the following > issues: > > -External applications (SAGA and R) have been tested mostly on > Windows, but not so much in Linux, so problems might appear on that > platform. No testing has been done at all under Mac OS. > -GRASS algorithms have been deactivated, in order to have a working > version as soon as possible. We hope to have GRASS incorporated into > the set of available algorithms pretty soon > -Although most algorithms support multiple formats for their ouput > layers, these are currently limited to tiff for raster layers, > shapefiles for vector layers and dbf files for tables. This can be > changed easily and will be done in a next version > -Calling external applications might not work if using layers such as > those coming from remote services or DB connections. Please, use just > file-based data by now (we are working on improving that as well, but > it might take time... ;-) ) > -Using tables (and also opening those generated by geoalgorithms) is > still a bit in development, since there is no built-in default method > of opening independent tables. By now, attribute tables of vector > layers can be used, but only if these are in shapefile format (since > we can refer to the associated dbf file). We expect to change this > soon, probably creating some plugin to improve that handling of > independent tables (or if anyone can point us to an existing one that > can be coupled with SEXTANTE, that good be even better...) > > Once again, read the manual before trying it, as it will greatly help > you to understand SEXTANTE and what you can do with it. > > For developers: I know a lot of documentation is needed...hope to have > that solved soon (or at least start to solve it). A SEXTANTE for QGIS > developers manual is also on its way... there is already a mechanism > to create QGIS plugins that register new algorithms in SEXTANTE > (thanks to Alexander Bruy for the suggestion!), but still has to be > documented. I am currently working on an well documented example case, > to be released soon as well > > Of course, all bug reports and comments are welcome, since this is > still a beta version. > > Thanks in advance for your interest. > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > qgis-develo...@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user