[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Ralph Apel]

AFAIK and remember, geoserver requires geotools which requires
imageio-ext which in turn will require its own patched version of the
gdal java binding.

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 01:36 +0530, Viji V Nair wrote:
> Hi
> 
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
> >>> we would need to decide whether to have only one soname pointing either
> >>> to the "normal" or to the iioext "real" file or to have different
> >>> sonames (in different packages, of course +1). If we use differing
> >>> sonames, the iomageio-ext classes will have to be patched to look for
> >>> that differing .so
> >>
> >> I would suggest different sonames in different package. This will be
> >> safer and we can have a separate package.
> >>
> >> Mathieu, what do u think?
> >
> > I don't have much experience with JNI packaging but this indeed seems safer.
> > I think that this very unlikely that people would use both at the same time.
> >
> > The question also is: which one would have as a dependency a package
> > like, say, geoserver?
> 
> Requires: gdal-java-imageio
> 
> Ralf, what do you say?
> 
> > Event though the one without imageio-ext is "purer", esp. from a FLOSS
> > point of view, most people would probably aim at the best
> > performances.
> > That is were the alternatives mechanism would be handy.
> >
> > As Ralph suggested, let's try and test.
> > An important part of the test would be to make sure that there is no
> > side-effect on non-java stuff so that we can push GDAL 1.7.3 to stable
> > quickly (that fact that we are doing this work now is independent from
> > this maintenance release, so it should not be kept "hostage").
> 
> There wont be any side effects to other non java stuffs, should work
> properly as we are not even touching that part. I am almost finished
> with the new spec, just thinking about the best way to pack the imgeio
> jnis so that we can enter into the testing phase.
> 
> >
> > Many thanks to you both for your patience!
> > I'm very excited to see a proper packaging for GIS Java apps around
> > the corner...
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> Thanks
> Viji
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