Re: [DebianGIS] Re: GIS tools missing in Debian?
payed support may also be aranged. we just have to route licenses to
upstream creators.
alex
Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> [Floris Sluiter]
>
>>The decission was made a while ago, when not all gispackages were in
>>stable yet. It now would hang for example on postgresql (in stable
>>still 7.4, we need 8), postgis (still unavailable, allthough easily
>>compiled) and php5, two of which are beyond the control of this
>>list.
>
>
> Right, so the next release of debian (etch) will hopefully have all
> the tools you would have needed. That is good to know.
>
>
>>Debian also lacks an important feature of Fedora: you can not sent a
>>check somewhere to obtain a license.
>
>
> Do they want the license, or do they want to pay someone for having
> sometome to blame if something is wrong? I suspect the latter, as I
> have never meet a company where the license as such was the issue.
> Covering ones ass by having someone externally to call and blame is on
> the other hand more common.
>
>
>>So yes debianGIS supports almost everything we need (I develop on
>>debian) but not all needed software is/was in stable in a compatible
>>version.
>
>
> Great. Do you use any of the other GIS tools in Debian?
>
>
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