On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 5:50 PM, William Kyngesburye
<wokl...@kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Larry Shaffer wrote:
>
>> Hi Noli,
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:08 PM, Noli Sicad <nsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Giuseppe Sucameli <sucam...@faunalia.it>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> Before merging it I've opened a pull request [1], further tests
>>>>> are welcome.
>>>>
>>>> I'm going to merge it today, if there are no objections, of
>>>> course. Better having it in core to make testing easier,
>>>> that out like now.
>>
>> The nightly builds I have setup for Mac try to adhere to the same
>> requirements as a Kyngchaos.com stable install (so most users can
>> basically just download the nightly app and try it out). Notable
>> exception is support for Globe plugin (forthcoming). William's
>> spatialite libraries/headers are embedded in the
>> /Library/Frameworks/SQLite3.framework install, and are not bundled
>> with the app, i.e. wouldn't be included in the nightly app, just
>> linked to local components.
>>
>> This means if I do something custom for v. 4.0, users would also have
>> to compile and install spatialite themselves, too. I would prefer to
>> wait until William gives us an update on when he might be rolling a
>> new framework. If he won't be able to do that for a while, I will look
>> into a CMake setup, whereby a custom spatialite install is bundled
>> with the app (a la libfcgi, libspatialindex and libpq). That should
>> probably be done anyway.
>
> I haven't looked at it yet.  I'll see what I can do, probably a week or so 
> (or less), depending on how simple the update is to work into my framework.  
> It will require a rebuild of GDAL also.
>
> Bundling a spatialite might be troublesome - GDAL uses sqlite and spatialite 
> also, so if you use my GDAL framework then you'll have multiple versions of 
> spatialite available (from the sqlite framework and yours) in the QGIS 
> compilation which might confuse the build.

William, thanks for the update! I'll just wait for you to do your
framework magic, then use the results for the nightlies.

Regards,

Larry

>> Looks like William's current SQLite3.framework version is 3.7.14.1, so
>> that should handle the requirements for spatialite 4.0. Not sure if he
>> includes FreeXL though, to import data from Microsoft Excel format
>> (.xls suffix) files.
>>
> Yes, I include freexl.
>
>
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