Re: Extending gdal, pdal, ... builds with tiledb
On 28 December 2021 at 17:44, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
| On 12/28/21 17:17, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > | Your comments regarding builds suggests that tiledb isn't very stable
| > | yet, so even if the package get actively maintained, building on top of
| > | it may not be wise.
| >
| > Hm, can you help me here and be more specific what section or sentence gave
| > you that impression?
|
| This:
|
| "
| Once built, gdal and pdal also configure and build fine. (I think I had
| to comment one gdal test out because it was hitting an API entry point
| removed in the current TileDB 2.5.3 I used; and similarly disable a
| little bit of test code in pdal.
| "
Fair point, and I only looked casually so far. However, what even a casual
glance reveals is
- pdal as packaged is 2.2.0 which is from August 2020 when that code was
current relative to then-current TileDB releases
- but current pdal is 2.3.0 dating from March 2021 and apparently not
packaged yet (I understand it is not always immediate) and may be closer
to what our API may have been at the time.
- in any event, I will circle back on this with Norman who is both a
colleague of mine at TileDB, and a IIRC a pdal committer.
So maybe the issue actually somewhere halfway between use here packagers and
the work of the pdal and tiledb upstream. I am sure we can easily square this.
| > Long story short, and I apologize for not making that more clear in the
| > initial email, I was not sending it as "bug report" asking you to turn tiledb
| > on in gdal or pdal today. I know we do not have the components in place. It
| > was a public "hi and how is it going -- does anybody want to work on tiledb
| > in Debian" email. I am not a point where I can do this for work (engineering
| > is more beholden to other build and distribution systems) and I do not have
| > _that_ much time myself with 180+ Debian packages as maintainer and also 60+
| > CRAN packages as author. But I would love to chip in a team.
|
| This clarification is very valuable, because it was entirely unclear to
| me what you tried to achieve with your initial email.
|
| As I don't use tiledb myself, I'm not going to contribute to that
| package. I already maintain to many package I don't actually use myself.
I have a certain been there, done that feeling and understand.
| You may find people through this list who do use tiledb and could
| contribute, and they are welcome to maintain the package within the GIS
| team instead of creating a new team. Manpower is very scarce in this
| team, it mostly give you existing infrastructure in the form of
| mailinglists and a Blends concept gives an additional avenue to find
| sponsors.
Yes we will see where it goes. Thanks for the pointer on 'how to salvage'
which looks very reasonable and appropriate! I will clone the salsa repo and
see (locally first) if I can refresh the package.
Cheers, Dirk
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