Re: [DebianGIS] Re: Re: gdal
the best long lasting solution would certainly be using the stable c api
in all depending packages.
alex
F.Sluiter wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>
>>Jon:
>>Seems to me Its best for now to so ahead and put Steve's package with
>
> my one >change on alioth CVS into unstable.
>
>>This will break other packages qgis and mapserver.
>
>
> Are those the only packages that will break? I might be mistaken, but
> I think there are ocatve and R bindings for gdal, and most likely
> others.
> Is there an easy way to find out which packages are depending on gdal
> (m.i. C++ ABI)?
>
>
>>Frank:
>>Even 1.2.0 to 1.2.1 are likey to be ABI incompatible at the
>>C++ level.
>
> Sad but very true in many applications, a fact I overlooked in my
> previous post (sorry): The c++ template sufered badly form this some
> years ago and broke many many applications in the process.
>
> Is there a relatively stable version (most bugs fixed ;-) and 'fully
> functional' as well) that could serve as the officia debianl ' mostly'
> stable version and at the same time can be used to compile
> grass/qgis/mapserver etc?
>
> In that case Frank can satisfy his customers ad lib. and the packages
> could ultimatly reach their final nirvana (stable ;-) ) . After a
> couple of months (when Frank reaches a real version update), all
> packages could get their own packaged version update again.
>
> With my personal bias:
> It is very nice to be bleeding edge on our private machines, however
> some people need a 'semi' stable environment on their servers. As a
> side effect of gis availability on debian, allthough I protested
> vehemently, my production environment will be fedora (which also means
> I have to compile some tools from source since they are not available
> as rpm... <sigh>).
>
> So bottomline:
> Is it possible to 'freeze' gdal at this time to a certain version and
> get debian on GIS ? It seems that Gdal is [one of the core | THE]
> package for debianGIS.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Floris
>
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