[GRASS5] Re: e00compr (was Re: [Pkg-grass-general] updates)

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 06:12:58PM -0400, Daniel Morissette wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> >
> >Hi Daniel, the problem below is holding the completion of the avc tools
> >in Debian. Hopefully this problem can be solved (if your time is lacking,
> >maybe you would accept a contributed ./configure[.in] script?).
> >
> 
> As Frank wrote in his earlier reply, the command-line utilities 
> (avcimport, avcexport and e00conv) are really the most interesting 
> components to distribute. Is there really a use for distributing the 
> library itself (.so and .h)?

What about updating 
 ogr/ogrsf_frmts/avc/
to avc tools 1.3 and adding the tools there? Then GRASS could simply fetch it
from GDAL/OGR.

Or do all in OGR:
 http://bugzilla.remotesensing.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159
? I still didn't find the money to finanze that...

> Does GRASS not bundle its own copy of the 
> library like everybody else does?

No, not yet. That would be another option.

> Of course if someone wants to contribute a Makefile.in and configure.in 
> then I'd be happy to include them in future releases. Or if you could 
> tell me the minimum requirements for Debian distributions (config 
> scripts, shared lib, man pages, etc?) then I can have a look, but as 
> Markus noticed, I can sometimes be slow to get to that kind of stuff.

Oh, that wasn't meant to be offensive, moreover I wanted to stress the
fact that the original developers cannot do all on their own... And not
everybody is familiar with Debian policies in detail.

> Daniel
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>  Daniel Morissette               dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca
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Best

 Markus