On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:27:48PM -0400, Fred McDavid wrote: > Debian and GIS. It's like chocolate and peanut-butter...and maybe some beer > and super-models...who like me...but I digress. If we are speaking of male super-models, too, this, might fit for me as well. But beeing a woman I am not that interested in female super-models ;-) ...but you are right, let's come back to the main topic of this list. > > I'd like to throw out there that ossim should definitely make the list. > > Also, how does one handle situations like the one that exists with php and > mapserver. Mapserver requires php be compiled to use the system regex. I > assume this breaks things with some php setups out there (although, for all I > know, it may not impact end-users at all). Do you have to maintain second > versions of php (and any other software with similar situations)? Dropping > php-mapscript would be an option, but a bad one, in my opinion. This let's think me of another very important section on the website: we should document the known open issues for getting packages into debian or why several parts have been let out etc. For the first step I find it better to have mapserver in debian without php-mapscript than not to have it in debian. But you are right that we should solve the problem. > > What do people that know do in situations like this? If this is documented > somewhere, a url would be good enough. I don't mind R'ing FM's...I'm just > not sure how to search for or properly describe this sort of situation. What does R'ing FM's mean? Greetings, Silke -- Silke Reimer Intevation GmbH http://intevation.de/ FreeGIS http://freegis.org/
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