On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:23:31AM -0800, Hamish wrote: > Hi, > > I thought I'd do an info drop. > > So in the past years Frankie maintained the package from DebianGIS > git on Alioth (now the git repo on spawn-of-Alioth). > > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-grass/ossim.git;a=summary > > and you'll see there that he started on packaging the newer 1.8 > version, with libtiff updated, but I think he found the build system > too much of a mess so stopped working on it in favour of letting > someone else on the DebianGIS team try. >
Yep, I can confirm that. Also, my main interest at the time was about packaging orfeotoolbox, which still has issues (currently almost solved) in using external stuff. So I stopped the upgrading of the ossim library and tools. > Since then OSSIM has moved to cmake and the build system is much > improved. A fine Google of Code student named M. Rashad worked on > OSSIM last summer, and after the summer was over started on > new-generation OSSIM deb packages. Hopefully me & Massimo can > convince him to join DebianGIS and continue the work there. :-) > > Anyway it is his packages you'll find in UbuntuGIS's ppa, and yes, > they'll be a good starting point for the Mk III version of the OSSIM > package in Debian. (see also ancient ossim-old/ in alioth pkg-grass > svn repo for MkI) > That could be possibily a good target for next orfeo package. -- Francesco P. Lovergine _______________________________________________ Pkg-grass-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-grass-devel
