Re: Status of the GDAL Perl binding in Debian bookworm

["Francesco P. Lovergine" <frankie@debian.org>]

Now merged in release notes for Bookworm.

https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/-/merge_requests/176/diffs?commit_id=1105995f83d3255f2f6d2b33728e86cbe6efbc48

- cheers

On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 11:00:07AM +0100, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> just in the (maybe) remote hypothesis that someone would be interested 
> in the next generation binding for GDAL within the Perl ecosystem, I'm 
> writing a brief
> message about that.
>
> The (well, almost) new FFI based interface available as Geo::GDAL::FFI can be installed on
> bookworm and works, but it requires that ten (10) different other modules it depends on
> find their way into main, including some Alien:: modules, in suitable order to
> accomplish a full build.
>
> Of course, all this is something that can be done under the hat of the Debian Perl team, but
> it requires time and efforts. In the meantime (i.e. for the bookworm 
> release) interested people will need to install via CPAN, but even 
> that is quite articulated.
>
> So, I wrote some brief notes on the Debian wiki for the brave hearted.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/BookwormGdalPerl
>
>
> --
> Francesco P. Lovergine

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Francesco P. Lovergine