<div dir="ltr">exactly.<br>i built my own 5.2.0 too. But i'm not a system admin really and it's a bit of a hassle. If i were planning to compile my software myself i would use a different distro (Gentoo?).<br>I've been posting some stuff on the ubuntu forums too, but i don't get too much response there.<br>
I guess that 5.2.0 doesn't get into lenny (and so ubuntu 8.10) because it hasn't been tested for long enough. It is still in the "experimental" repository (thanks <span class="HcCDpe"><span class="lDACoc">nico mandery</span></span> for pointing this out to me), so not even in "unstable" yet.<br>
And that will probably mean that we won't see any higher than 5.0.x in lenny - the stable debian versions for the next ±4 years. I know it's a choice for stability and security -- all about priorities, so nothing to make a fuss about -- but it's unconfortable nonetheless.<br>
<br>So lets try a different angle: if OSGeo are providing a package manager for windows (osgeo4w), why not provide a repository for Debian / Ubuntu and another one for RedHat / Fedora ?<br>Easy for me to say of course, but doesn't it seem unfair that Windows should be favoured above open source OS's ?<br>
(then, maybe i got it all wrong, so please correct me)<br><br>cheers,<br><br>WBL<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
In my experiences with Fedora, they tend to keep the same version of MapServer that the OS version was released with (so Fedora 9 has 5.0.2, or something like that, by default). As I want to use the latest version, I build it for myself. I bet that distributions tend to stay with what they had when first released for map compatibility reasons. It would be something to discuss with your distributions package maintainers.<br>
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