[mapserver-dev] AGG dependency: Call for vote

[Thomas Bonfort]

Hi devs,

this wasn't either explicit nor intended in my first email, so I'd
like to formally call for vote on this one.
We already have +1's from SteveL, SteveW and Assefa, and I'll add my +1 also.

best regards,

Thomas

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Thomas Bonfort
<thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Devs,
>
> I foresee this might by stirring a can of worms given the precedent
> with the GD library, but I would like to propose that we stop relying
> on an external agg library, and pull in our own subset of agg in the
> mapserver source tree:
>
> * most of the agg code is templated, which means that the agg external
> library actually only contains a tiny subset of what we're using
> anyways.
> * building agg is a pain for our users (Makefile needs to be patched
> (adding -fPIC and building a shared library), and some distro's
> package are just plain broken (rhel notably). This is my primary
> motivation for the modification.
> * the design intent of the library was to be directly included in
> project trees rather than being built as a library
> * the agg project is to the least not very lively. It has been taken
> over by the community, but for the time being this has limited itself
> to having a large list of commiters but no actual coding going on. As
> such I do not see it evolving in a near future.
> * there would be no change in the mapserver code, only Makefile modifications.
>
> If we decide to go down this route, I volunteer to maintain the
> imported code and the corresponding Makefiles.
>
> so:
> - can the mapscript maintainers speak up if this can be disruptive ?
> - bring on the flames :)
>
> best regards,
>
> thomas
>
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