On 11/12/19 5:31 AM, Benjamin Trigona-Harany wrote: > In 2018, the main opensource geospatial libraries - GDAL, proj, libgeotiff, > libspatialite - started an effort to make core changes that could only be > done > simultaneously (https://gdalbarn.com/). Slowly the software that uses these > libraries has been adopting that new tool chain. Slackware, however, is > currently still on the old set of libraries, but I've finally sat down and > worked through what will happen if SlackBuilds goes through the migration and > I'd like to get feedback from maintainers and users on whether we should. > > Here are the core upgrades for 14.2 that need to be coordinated: > gis/gdal 3.0.2 > gis/proj 6.2.1 > gis/geos 3.8.0 > gis/libgeotiff 1.5.1 > gis/libspatialite 4.3.0 > > Here are applications or other scripts that we get to upgrade. With a few > exceptions we are no longer able to upgrade applications in this list without > doing the above core library upgrades first: > gis/qgis 3.10.0 > gis/postgis 3.0.0 > gis/Fiona 1.8.9 > gis/rasterio 1.1.0 > gis/grass 7.8.0 > gis/ossim 2.10.0 > gis/OTB 7.0.0 > gis/pdal 2.0.1 > gis/pyproj 2.4.1 > academic/Shark 4.0.0 > > There are a few regressions or scripts which will need to be removed (or > possibly patched from dev branches): > gis/OTB will lose Python support > gis/qlandkartegt no longer builds (but it's deprecated in favour of qmapshack > anyhow) > gis/osgEarth no longer builds but upcoming version 3.0 will work from what I > can tell > gis/libLAS no longer builds but isn't required by any projects and looks to > be > deprecated in favour of PDAL > gis/merkaartor no longer builds but I think there might be commits in master > that should make it work > gis/pyspatialite no longer works but it is not needed by newer versions of > QGIS anymore > misc/zyGrib not building because of new proj > > I've also tested the other scripts that depend directly on the core library > upgrades, all of which are working. > > Are the regressions that I have noted enough to hold back on going ahead with > the upgrades? What about any indirect or optional dependencies? > > Feel free to use this branch if you want to do any testing: https:// > git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/log/?h=user/bosth/gdalbarn.
Hi Ben David has been doing some work on GDAL in the past which is placed on a separate branch: gdal-review Can you have a look on it as well? See if it can be cherry-picked? -- Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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