Re: [Qgis-developer] (Yet again) SAGA support badly broken in QGIS

[Johan Van de Wauw <johan.vandewauw@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 9:02 PM, Tim Sutton <tim@kartoza.com> wrote:

Hi

On 31 May 2016, at 20:44, Victor Olaya <volayaf@gmail.com> wrote:

My opinion about this (and getting stronger each time, since the
situation is getting worse...) is that we have only two solutions:

1) fork SAGA and have QGIS depend on that forked software, which we
will (in principle) not upgrade.
2) embed a fixed version of SAGA, and use only that one. SAGA should
be treated like a library: we support a given version, and not all
version of it. If you want to use a different one, you cant (just like
QGIS uses Python2 and a user cannot use Python3)

I will be happy to discuss about this.

Yes I chatted with Victor about this at the HF and if we want processing to become something everyone can depend on to work reliably in their workflows then his way seems like a very good approach. Same approach for SAGA etc.

Regards

As said in the previous post, I'm willing to maintain one LTR branch in saga, which we could switch eg for every qgis ltr release.

https://sourceforge.net/p/saga-gis/mailman/message/35127843/

Kind Regards,

Johan