There is the FGS installer package (http://maptools.org/fgs/) for
Linux. But it's still using version 5.0.2, as far as I know.
Christy
Willy-Bas Loos wrote:
exactly.
i built my own 5.2.0 too. But i'm not a system admin really and it's a
bit of a hassle. If i were planning to compile my software myself i
would use a different distro (Gentoo?).
I've been posting some stuff on the ubuntu forums too, but i don't get
too much response there.
I guess that 5.2.0 doesn't get into lenny (and so ubuntu 8.10) because
it hasn't been tested for long enough. It is still in the
"experimental" repository (thanks nico mandery for pointing this out
to me), so not even in "unstable" yet.
And that will probably mean that we won't see any higher than 5.0.x in
lenny - the stable debian versions for the next ±4 years. I know it's
a choice for stability and security -- all about priorities, so
nothing to make a fuss about -- but it's unconfortable nonetheless.
So lets try a different angle: if OSGeo are providing a package
manager for windows (osgeo4w), why not provide a repository for Debian
/ Ubuntu and another one for RedHat / Fedora ?
Easy for me to say of course, but doesn't it seem unfair that Windows
should be favoured above open source OS's ?
(then, maybe i got it all wrong, so please correct me)
cheers,
WBL
In my experiences with Fedora, they tend to keep the same version
of MapServer that the OS version was released with (so Fedora 9
has 5.0.2, or something like that, by default). As I want to use
the latest version, I build it for myself. I bet that
distributions tend to stay with what they had when first released
for map compatibility reasons. It would be something to discuss
with your distributions package maintainers.
--
"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all
others because you were born in it." - George Bernard Shaw
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