Re: Debian GIS BoF at DebConf
Hi,
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 02:42:40PM +0200, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
> On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 04:28:49PM +0200, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
> > One thing which may be worth talking about is packaging some of the
> > GIS java stack. Since it relied on JAI it was hard to do so in main,
> > but now geotools and geoserver have an option to use jai-ext.
> > http://docs.geotools.org/latest/userguide/tutorial/raster/jaiext.html
>
> I would check with a grain of salt. Note that often 'an option' is not
> the mainstream choice, and result could be underoptimal or badly working.
>
> For instance, I'm still unable to add gdal extension to geoserver by using
> debian packaged gdal library. So, it is *in theory* possible to do that,
> but *in practice* anyone will use third parties stuff to work :-)
On the other hand: If nobody is brave enough to give the good == free
stuff a chance we might remain forever with the old non-free crap. Your
argument should not stop us to do "the right thing" (tm) since that's
what Debian is about.
Kind regards
Andreas.
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