You are not alone, I am doing some GIS stuff on gentoo boxes. From my point of view, I'd like to see fresh ebuilds for the following winning combination:
- Minnesota MapServer: http://mapserver.gis.umn.edu/
- PostGIS: http://postgis.refractions.net/
and
- Proj.4: http://proj.maptools.org/
PostGIS has an ebuild, but it is an older version, as you reported...
Gerald, I commit (je m'engage) to be a beta tester of your ebuild for those applications. You certainly know that it is quite challenging to install the php/mapscript for example, because their are dependencies to the php configuration. I don't think that I can contribute ebuilds directly at the moment.
What is the status of your ebuilds and who is going to be involved?
Best regards & a bientot,
Thierry
michal wrote:
Dear list,
It's great to hear that there are GIS people on gentoo :). Currently I am trying to work in GIS applications especially in GRASS-GIS 6.0 and QGIS 0.6, but there are no ebuilds for these so I installed in normal-linux way. I didnt develop ebuilds before, but I think i could involve in it in some way (testing, writing ebuilds - it is time to start :))
greeings, michal
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*De: *GÃrald Fenoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *Date: *26 avril 2005 12:10:52 GMT+02:00 *Ã: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Objet: [gentoo-dev] Geographic Information System team ? RÃpondre Ã: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 ?
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 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.
Cordialy.
Gerald Fenoy
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