[gdal-dev] GDAL 1.5.0 Beta2 Released

[Christopher Barker]

William Kyngesburye wrote:
> I wonder if just a site link can be added to pypi for the available 
> binaries for mine? (I'll have b2 ready soon, b1 is built)

That would be nice.

> I can look into repackaging it standalone, probably one egg for 
> Leopard/Python 2.5 and two installers for Tiger/Python 2.5 and 
> Leopard/python 2.5.

I'm confused. What's the difference between Leopard/Python 2.5 and 
Leopard/python 2.5?

> No egg for Tiger/Python 2.5 since setuptools isn't standard there.

You can still use it there, though.

In any case, that's a lot of options -- I'd just build one that is 
compatible with the Python2.5 Universal Framework Build that runs on 
10.4 and 10.5 (and I think even 10.3.9). Others are gravy, but there 
really are two darn many pythons on OS-X! I don't think you lose 
anything by using that Python -- except having to install it, but it's 
never really worked well to try to use Apple's Python -- most of us have 
simply given up.

> But since the python bindings are closely tied to the GDAL version, and 
> in my builds to the OSX version, this may be more hassle than it's worth 

Well, that's a bit of a trick. The standard approach is to build eggs 
with the dependencies statically linked -- so it's just one thing to 
install, and it "just works". I assume this is what the Windows ones do. 
I don't think you can have an egg depend on a non-python thing like a 
Framework -- it makes you miss Linux packages systems....

> (it's already installed along with the framework in an easy to use 
> installer package).

Your various Framework installers are pretty nice -- maybe a link to 
them would be fine.

-Chris


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