On 4/26/05, G�rald Fenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm new on this list, so I quickly present myself. I currently work > for the entreprise 01map which is specialised on providing a Geographic > Information System solution, this is done principaly for the french > administrations (as for exemple the Environment Ministery > http://carto.languedoc-roussillon.environnement.gouv.fr/ in french only > sorry ... ). We are especialy involved in the postgis development for > which we contribute (Gerald Fenoy and Jean David Techer are from > 01map), but also with all the dependanced projects as for instance : > mapserver. > > I would like to know if there is any GIS team (not for Gentoo > Installation System but for Geographic Information System ...) or any > effort on that way ? > I dont know .. I think not.
> Indeed, I could see that the postgis ebuild is so old, we currently > work with the 1.0 version but the postgis ebuild is for 0.7 version ... > I've also seen that there is some purposes to include the postgis > directly into the postgresql ebuild, but do you know that the futurs > versions (it's already the case for the cvs one) don't need at all the > postgresql sources to compile it ? > > Futhermore the postgis ebuild is used but there is no geos ebuild in > portage (but I've already made it too) so postgis will be less usefull > as it could be with it (geos provide functionalities for using all > known projections systems). > > With our "postgis developers" team we have also made an update of the > qgis ebuild to work with the lastest postgis version (which has the > geos support) ebuild we also made. > > To conclude I give you the tree of our work on the Geographic > Information System : > > dev-db/postgis > dev-db/postgis-cvs better make that postgis-9999.ebuild > sci-libs/geos > sci-geosciences/mapserver > sci-geosciences/cartoweb (which use the webapp-config system) > > here is the list of the ebuilds developped by others contributors of > our independant project : > > sci-geosciences/qgis > > I hope that you've understand my query to create a new team specialy > involved on developping and *maintaining* more GIS relatives ebuilds. 5 Packages seem to be too few for a separate herd. Maybe you are also interested in GPS related pkgs? Do they have to do anything with GIS at all? See this post for gps: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/27259 Regards, Stefan -- [email protected] mailing list
