On Mon, Oct 01, 2012 at 10:09:31AM +0200, Davide Cesari wrote: > > On 30/09/2012 23:41, phil rosenberg wrote: > > Hi Alan > > I was just considering that one negative brought up regarding supporting > > shapefiles was the addition of extra dependencies. I sometimes feel > > (probably wrongly) that if only a basic bit of functionality is needed > > then it's easier to have a basic bit of code that does exactly what I > > (we) need rather than add an extra dependency and API (and possibly > > build system) that goes overboard on features. Maybe this is a Windows > > hangup as a lot of open source code has build systems which are rather > > biased towards linux (even CMAKE setups can be guilty of this) so > > sometimes it can be a few days work to get a library built and more than > > once I've been totally unable to do it. This kind of thing is often > > quite daunting to people who haven't done it before. > > > > I'll have a look at shapelib anyway and see if compiles easily on Windows. > > > > Phil > > Hello to everybody, > please note that shapelib is part of the OSGEO4W installation, > > https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ > > which is currently the official and supported way to install shapelib > (and to build it) on Windows; OSGEO4W comes with an interactive > installer which allows you to choose the desired packages, from lower > level libraries to full GIS applications, and the necessary dependencies > are automatically installed. And of course it includes also Gdal/Ogr, as > a more general approach to GIS formats. > FYI. another useful site with high resolution, free (with limitations) > country boundaries data in shapefile format is this one: > http://www.gadm.org/ > > Best regards, Davide > >
Davide, That is useful to know. On Linux both shapelib and gdal/ogr are commonly packaged by the distributions. If there is a simple installer available for windows as well then it reduces the issues about users building the libraries from scratch significantly. Does anyone know about Mac OSX? It may also reduce the advantages of shapelib over gdal/ogr. Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Got visibility? Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
