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



On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 12:51:37PM +0100, Wolfgang Baer wrote:
> 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 ....

Yes, this is indeed a problem but as you already suggest below I
would start to configure deegree only with postgis and mysql (which
is possible as I know from experience). 

> 
> 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.

Best regards,

	Silke

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