[osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Roel Vanhout
Dear all, I'm a student who's been accepted into Google Summer of Code to work on mapnik, and specifically the build system and builds for Windows. We discussed the inclusion of mapnik in osgeo4w and I'd like to get into contact with the maintainer of mapnik package in there, to see if there's

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Roel Vanhout
Hi, I didn't know about existing tickets but that's the reason I'm popping up here :) #218 looks like exactly what I'll be working on, albeit not specifically for osgeo4w; but I'd be happy to work with you to fix this. Are you the mapnik maintainer for osgeo4w? How does it work in general, are

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Julien Malik
Hello, First of all : congratulations for your GSoC project ! I'm probably whipping a dead horse here, but I hope one of the results of your work will be having a solution to the #218 ticket (being able to use the mapnik C++ API with only osgeo4w packages). We also ran into troubles setting

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Julien Malik
Le 02/05/2011 16:16, Roel Vanhout a écrit : Hi, I didn't know about existing tickets but that's the reason I'm popping up here :) #218 looks like exactly what I'll be working on, albeit not specifically for osgeo4w; but I'd be happy to work with you to fix this. Are you the mapnik maintainer

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Roel Vanhout
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Jürgen E. j...@norbit.de wrote: The package isn't actively maintained.  I only added the repackaged the win32 binaries from mapnik website for the QGIS plugin - and IIRC updated it once, when Dane Springmeyer notified me about 0.7.1. So you're welcome to

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Mapnik in osgeo4w

2011-05-02 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Roel, On Mon, 02. May 2011 at 16:16:48 +0200, Roel Vanhout wrote: A more general question: do the osgeo4w packages focus on cygwin/mingw or Visual Studio builds, too? Is there an introduction I can read for devs to get up to speed, apart from the trac wiki Most packages are built with

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] upload.osgeo.org down?

2011-05-02 Thread Markus Neteler
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Matt Wilkie matt.wil...@gov.yk.ca wrote: Looks like it's bigger, I can't connect to osgeo.org with any protocol at all. Confirmed with http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/osgeo.org The SSL certificate was not renewed in time by the IMHO responsible person.

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Re: [osgeo4w] #219: Upgrade python version

2011-05-02 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Matt, On Fri, 29. Apr 2011 at 00:18:40 -0700, Matt Wilkie wrote: I've started a wiki page where we can more easily track what stage(s) the packages are at. (At least I hope it's more easily, the table syntax quickly gets cumbersome!) http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/RequiresPython

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Re: [osgeo4w] #219: Upgrade python version

2011-05-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
I were going to proceed with the update, I'd opt for setting up a secondary repository (osgeo4w-setup has an option -s to point to a different rep for testing - not sure about apt). I've setup a mirror at http://o4w-mirror.dreamhosters.com/repository/ At present it's a dumb mirror, meaning we

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Re: [osgeo4w] #219: Upgrade python version

2011-05-02 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Matt, On Mon, 02. May 2011 at 14:37:22 -0700, Matt Wilkie wrote: I were going to proceed with the update, I'd opt for setting up a secondary repository (osgeo4w-setup has an option -s to point to a different rep for testing - not sure about apt). I've setup a mirror at

Re: [osgeo4w-dev] Re: [osgeo4w] #219: Upgrade python version

2011-05-02 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Matt, On Tue, 03. May 2011 at 00:02:42 +0200, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote: On Mon, 02. May 2011 at 14:37:22 -0700, Matt Wilkie wrote: I were going to proceed with the update, I'd opt for setting up a secondary repository (osgeo4w-setup has an option -s to point to a different rep for