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On 06/17/2012 12:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4FDDA5C3.902@gmail.com" type="cite">On
06/17/2012 01:57 AM, Hamish wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">Angelos wrote:
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...
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">since there are not many things fixed
from alpha3.
<br>
<br>
Thoughts<br>
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I'd like to raise the question of spatialite versions again, before
feature freeze. I don't want to be a nudnik on this, but the current
mix of versions is not so good.<br>
<br>
By way of reminder: On OSGeo Live 5.5 we have the spatialite
libraries and the CLI program installed from deb packages from the
ubuntugis repos. In addition we installed the GUI programs
(spatialite-gui and spatialite-gis) using pre-compiled binaries from
the gaia-gis site. Back then we had version 3.0beta of the CLI
program and ver 1.4 of the spatialite-gui. <br>
<br>
The current install_spatialite.sh script on 6.0 gets *everything*
from the ubuntugis repo. This leaves us with a newer version of the
CLI program, 3.0 stable, (the deb package "spatialite-bin") and
recent versions of the libspatialite and librasterlite. However the
most recent deb package for the GUI spatialite-gui is version 1.3 -
quite old. In fact a DB created from the command line (the newer
version), with spatial indexes, *will not work* in this older GUI
program since it lacks support for some new features! So we're
supplying two components of the same software suite that are
incompatible. Not good...<br>
<br>
On the DebianGIS maillist there's been some productive discussion
about spatialite - as Hamish pointed out recently. They have made
good progress with the CLI package, and we now have a recent, stable
libspatialite and spatialite-bin. But there are still dependency
issues with the GUI program.<br>
<br>
We could just download the intermediary 1.4 version like we did for
Live 5.5. But wouldn't it make more sense to grab the tarball for
the latest version 1.5 of spatialite-gui and compile it as part of
the install script? This would give us 80% of the suite from debs
and only the GUI program self-compiled. And the packages would all
be of the same generation.<br>
<br>
And, of course if a newer deb for the GUI component comes out before
our final release, it will be easy to change the install script to
use it instead of the compilation.<br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Micha<br>
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Micha Silver
GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.surfaces.co.il">http://www.surfaces.co.il</a></pre>
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