On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 8:15 PM we recorded - oops - I mean Tom Russo < [email protected]> wrote:
> > --- <snip> --- > > So here's the survey: > > - If Xastir stopped letting you turn off shapefile support, and required > it just like we require Motif and X11, would you be beside yourself > with > rage? > Nope, I usually enable it anyway. > > - If, as is called for in bug #128, > https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/128, we also made PCRE > a mandatory third party library and made DBFAWK support (which > is the only thing that uses PCRE in Xastir) unconditional, > would you revolt? > > No, the only way I've ever used shapefiles is in conjunction with DBFAWK. This is pretty much necessary anymore, because > the alternative, hard-coded shapefile rendering, hasn't been maintained > in years and most of the shapefiles for which there is some hard coding > are almost as ancient and useless as worldhi.map. We plan to remove > that option for the next release. > > - Do you have any favorite world shapefile maps that might be suitable > as a world-wide default map that is shown when Xastir starts for the > first time (until told otherwise), to be included (and maintained) in > the Xastir source tree and always installed? > > I do not. Normally with offline maps - shapefiles or otherwise - I'm looking for specific maps in my area, so I don't have a feel for what's out there for the world. ---<snip>--- Regards, Lee K5DAT ~ 4mi SSE of Portage, WI <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=icon> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
