[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Viji V Nair]

Hi Ralf

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Ralph Apel <r.apel at r-apel.de> wrote:
> Yes, I'll do. Please confirm the alternative sonames for the iioext
> patched stuff.

As you mentioned earlier please include the "iioext" to the current name.

libgdaliioextjni.$(SO_EXT)

Will keep the extension as it is, only the name change.

Thanks
Viji

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> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 01:55 +0530, Viji V Nair wrote:
>> Hi Ralf
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Ralph Apel <r.apel at r-apel.de> wrote:
>> > AFAIK and remember, geoserver requires geotools which requires
>> > imageio-ext which in turn will require its own patched version of the
>> > gdal java binding.
>>
>> Yes, its a chain. Thank you so much for the remainder.
>>
>> Can we stick on the separate package gdal-java-imageio? Would it be
>> possible for you to find some time and patch the classes with new
>> sonames?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Viji
>>
>> >
>> > 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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