Re: [Pkg-grass-general] Should JUMP be part of Debian-gis?

[Wolfgang Baer <wbaer@gmx.de>]

Sorry forgot to reply to list !

Hi Silke,

Silke Reimer wrote:
> I am working quite often with deegree with is the first choice if
> you want to build spatial data infrastructure with more than just a
> WMS and perhaps a basic WFS. 
>
> Thus I am interested to get java GIS tools into debian as well. The
> problem is that I am not so experienced with Java that I feel
> competent to judge about the lacks into the GNU classpath project
> that have to be filled to make deegree or other java GIS tools available
> in debian main.
>
> Since I am in contact with the deegree developers I could probably
> even achieve changes in deegree rather easily if necessary but as I
> said I would need help of some experienced java programmer.
> Something similar holds for jump (which is indeed a great tool!).

I know deegree - the wfs part - quite good.

Well, I will spend tonight some time to summarize some java gis
projects. I will also try to look after problems - like dependencies etc.

The main problem with deegree - in my opinion - will be the huge number
of dependencies on non-free java libraries for the different db backends
like oracle, arc sde etc ....

I don't know if its possible to configure the build only to build the
free parts. So we could build a package which supports only mysql and
postgis as databases.


Wolfgang