[Gvsig_english] Sextante for gvSIG has been released

[Victor Olaya]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the SEXTANTE Project has released a first
version of his analysis suite for gvSIG. The aim of this suite is to add
advanced spatial data analysis capabilities to gvSIG, for both raster and
vector data.

The suite comprises 161 extensions, including modules dealing with
geostatistics, geomorphometry, hydrology or point pattern analysis, among
others, along with basic raster and vector data handling utilities. It is
still a development version, so not all the extensions are fully developed,
and many of them are likely to be enhanced or even completely rewritten in
future stable versions. However, all of them are fully functional in this
release.

It is worth noting that not only this first release of SEXTANTE is still
under development, but also some parts of gvSIG itself (i.e. the ones
related to raster data handling), which still lacks some basic
functionalities which would greatly improve the usability of the whole
SEXTANTE-gvSIG system. We are working closely with the gvSIG development
team to solve this as soon as possible. For this reason, bugs and
limitations may appear, and we would like you to report on them in order to
help us improve the quality of our software.  Caution should be exercised
specially when using  extensions dealing with raster layers, as gvSIG still
has some limitations for handling this kind of data.

No documentation is available at the moment but we plan to publish it soon,
along with new extensions and features.

Binaries and sources can be downloaded from the SEXTANTE official website at
http://www.sextantegis.com

Both the website and the software are only available in spanish, but english
versions are on its way.

Regards.

Victor Olaya