Dear developers, today the Spatialindex package got approved for Fedora, the Qwtpolar package is there for one or two weeks now. Cmake lets you choose between the bundled version of Qwtpolar and a system wide for some time now. 2 weeks back I posted a patch that allows the buildsystem to use a system wide Spatialindex. In order to achieve that, I also had to modify the Spatialindex wrapper. You can find the patch here: http://hub.qgis.org/issues/4111
I'd like to build Fedora's QGIS with the external Qwtpolar and Spatialindex, but would like to have your review on the patch first, since I am not a programmer. The remaining bundles I know of are: Name:libpal Website: http://geosysin.iict.ch/trac/wiki/Index4extJPAL Location: src/core/pal Comment: Martin Dobias did a lot of work on that one in 2009 and he and others continue to do so. I recently wrote to Olivier Ertz, who is one of the original authors, whether he was still interested in the library and interested in merging the improvements upstream. I can try to help in this process, but I don't know if I'm any help. Name: qextserialport Website: http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/ Location: src/core/gps/qextserialport Comment: From what I saw on their tracker, they seem to have lots of users, but don't really respond to tickets. Thus there are a lot of open bug reports. Not even the license is completely clear, see http://code.google.com/p/qextserialport/issues/detail?id=8 There also were requests for a fork. Name: qtermwidget Website: http://qtermwidget.sourceforge.net/ Location: src/plugins/grass/qtermwidget Comment: No commits for more than 2 years. Something might be going on here: http://gitorious.org/qtermwidget Name: nmealib Website: http://nmea.sourceforge.net/ Location: src/core/gps Comment: There is a fork with new releases: https://github.com/fhuberts/nmealib/downloads One thing I'm not particularly fond of, is Pyspatialite. Pyspatialite is a fork of PySqlite instead of an extension. I don't know though, if QGIS relies on it. To proceed, I ask you to review my patch and please comment on the invidual libs, if there is more to know or I stated wrong. Volker Fröhlich _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
