On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Tom Russo wrote:
Good lord. Page for Ms. Pandora.
I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, else I'd be
hosing out my keyboard again. (:
If we need to bundle shapelib for some reason (and what was that
again?), then
we should stop there.
IMO, the reasons to bundle shapelib are:
- good vector map support for the large number of easily available
shapefiles out there
- the minor additional packages to make shapelib support pretty and
efficient (DB, PCRE, et al) are typically easily installed, if
they're not already there (much like X11)
- and the biggest one, IMO: shapelib does not build using the defacto
standard "./configure; make; make install" model. This makes it more
difficult for the novice to get it installed and working. I have to
twiddle the included libtool script to get it to build on Mac OS X.
-Jason
kg4wsv
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