BTW, there is also another possible issue to consider. Where users will report tickets related to OTB algorithms and who will address them?
2018-02-05 5:43 GMT+02:00 Nyall Dawson <[email protected]>: > On 4 February 2018 at 22:27, Rashad Kanavath <[email protected]> > 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 > [email protected] > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Alexander Bruy _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list [email protected] List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
