Hi Andrea, On Thu, 26. Nov 2015 at 17:11:32 +0100, andrea antonello wrote: > I will jump in as previous uDig and java maintainer for some clarification. > java is still there because I thought other projects would use it. But > it is in great shape, i.e. works properly.
Ah, sorry, I didn't know. > The problem with java is that one xml library of it conflicts with some other > package and it has been suggested in the past that java would therefore be > installed as an application. Right, see also http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/441 > That is the problem and should be first discussed. I am not sure who > makes use of java-gdal bindings in osgeo4w, but several have stated > that a "general" java might give problems with other packages. > It might be good to check who still depends on java and evaluate if it > is better to insert java in the gvSIG installation. I suppose no one does - neither the (outdated) gdal nor the (uptodate) mapscript bindings. Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-31 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de QGIS release manager (PSC) Germany IRC: jef on FreeNode
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