Re: e00compr (was Re: [Pkg-grass-general] updates)
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:12:58PM -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >
> >Hi Daniel, the problem below is holding the completion of the avc tools
> >in Debian. Hopefully this problem can be solved (if your time is lacking,
> >maybe you would accept a contributed ./configure[.in] script?).
> >
>
> As Frank wrote in his earlier reply, the command-line utilities
> (avcimport, avcexport and e00conv) are really the most interesting
> components to distribute. Is there really a use for distributing the
> library itself (.so and .h)?
What about updating
ogr/ogrsf_frmts/avc/
to avc tools 1.3 and adding the tools there? Then GRASS could simply fetch it
from GDAL/OGR.
Or do all in OGR:
http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159
? I still didn't find the money to finanze that...
> Does GRASS not bundle its own copy of the
> library like everybody else does?
No, not yet. That would be another option.
> Of course if someone wants to contribute a Makefile.in and configure.in
> then I'd be happy to include them in future releases. Or if you could
> tell me the minimum requirements for Debian distributions (config
> scripts, shared lib, man pages, etc?) then I can have a look, but as
> Markus noticed, I can sometimes be slow to get to that kind of stuff.
Oh, that wasn't meant to be offensive, moreover I wanted to stress the
fact that the original developers cannot do all on their own... And not
everybody is familiar with Debian policies in detail.
> Daniel
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Best
Markus
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