Re: [DebianGIS] Improving the debiangis-status page (Was: paraview)
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 06:19:15PM +0100, Paolo Cavallini wrote:
> my suggestion is to remove all older packages ASAP from d-gis repo - this is
> proving very confusing for new users (I had several requests on our Italian
> mailing lists). I would leave in d-gis only those packages who cannot go to
> debian main. This should be true for cvs packages only (especially grass,
> maybe qgis).
> BTW: Radim is compiling qgis+grass for windows. This is not directly
> interesting for me, but I think is is rather paradoxical that windows users
> are having a clear advantage over debian users, because they can install the
> latest version from cvs without hassles, whereas we're forced to wait months
> after the official release. I do not want to start a flame, nor to blame
> anybody, but I would like to follow the mission of debiangis, which is:
> "to make it [Debian] the best distribution for Geographical Information
> Systems applications and users".
You may use qgis+grass for windows in Wine... :-) Just kidding.
But in fact, Radim is building winGRASS on Linux of course
(mingW). Amusingly it works on ms-windows.
Markus
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