oh they've got a package for linux too, that's great! hm, they even included some sort of package manager. i'll go check it out. This looks like it could be a great help - it's not nice to have to compile all that from code.
thanks! On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 4:27 PM, Christy Nieman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 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 > > -- "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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