On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote:
> Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System)
> package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search
GIS',
> but got a long list of unrelated results. I've found GRASS on
> freshmeat, but there doesn't appear to be .deb available.
IMA (www.ima.sp.gov.br) is currently sponsoring the packaging of some
GIS
related software, but I hear MapServer and GRASS are f***** painful to
package, and a major mess of dependencies, too.
Send email to gleydson@d.o (debian org) and ask him about the
progress, last
time I talked to him about it, he had preliminar packages that require
a
full php surgery on the system, and was trying to cleanup upstream
mapserver
enough to allow for less intrusive packaging... That is for
MapServer. I
don't know about how much progress the GRASS packaging has seen so
far.