[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo Stack - was: OSGeo community Maxed out?

[Zak James]

I spent some time with Guillaume looking at getting fgs working on OS  
X. One problem was that some of the utilities that fgs relies on for  
it's own operation are not part of the base operating system so  
alternatives need to be found and supported. Also, since some of the  
packages have problems building out of the box on OS X, it is more  
work to support them within fgs. Fundamentally, there's no problem,  
it's just going to require some effort.

In the interim, William Kyngesburye provides excellent, frequently  
updated installers for many of these packages at http:// 
www.kyngchaos.com.

zak
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Zak James
Applications and Software Development
DM Solutions Group Inc.
http://www.dmsolutions.ca


On 26 Oct 2006, at 14:05, Daniel Morissette wrote:

> Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>> We could easily build on top of these two distribution models,  
>> couldn't we?  I know, for example, Jeff at DMSG is working on  
>> improving the MS4W side of things.  Now that I'm a Mac user, I  
>> also wonder about parallel approaches for it.
>
> Work on FGS has slown down because Guillaume who brought FGS to  
> where it is today has moved on to another job and is only looking  
> after FGS in his spare time. However with some new blood it could  
> definitely get a new life, be polished and become a good solution.
>
> With respect to the Mac, FGS was designed to be portable to the Mac  
> but there is still lots of work to do to port all current packages  
> to the Mac. I think some initial work has been done but I'm not sure.
>
> Daniel
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> Daniel Morissette
> http://www.mapgears.com/
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