[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: Matt Perry's post on Ubuntu/GIS has gained a lot of attention

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,
Luca Casagrande píše v Pá 26. 10. 2007 v 11:27 +0200:
> Hi Jachym,
> 
> your thoughts are right..before the repository, we need to define *the*
> osgeo distribution.

imho not: this is free software - free as freedom to choose, what you
want to choose

> For example, I am working on the Gentoo-GIS repository and this could
> also be taken in consideration.
> My sentence was referred to the Ubuntu topic, and related to the fact
> that right now you are the only one that manage the Ubuntu software
> repository

certainly not ;-)

>  and probably an hand would be useful.

always :-D

Imho, rather than provide any kind of repositories - at least not for
those operating systems / their distributions and clons, OSGeo should
focuse on pushing fresh versions to new Linux releases. Sometimes, the
people who are completing stable distributions better leave our GIS
packages, because they look to fresh and untested to them. OSGeo task
should be to press on this people to include fresh GIS software to
distros. I hope, you understand, what I would like to express :-)

There is no need for new special repositories. Maybe it makes sense for
backports. Of course, one place, where Windows users could get all the
FOSS4G stuff would be good :-)

Jachym
 
> 
> Bye
> 
> Luca
> 
> Il giorno ven, 26/10/2007 alle 11.09 +0200, Jachym Cepicky ha scritto:
> > hi,
> > 
> > the idea is nice, however, the organization never makes the packages -
> > the people always do. 
> > 
> > imho, unless you do not want Ubuntu to became *the* osgeo distribution,
> > you must not ignore other distributions. 
> > 
> > why should e.g. frankie (the grass debian package maintainer - many
> > thanks!) work under osgeo head, if he did so till now as official Debian
> > maintainer?  I can not of course speak for him. 
> > 
> > well, just few thoughts of mine
> > 
> > Jachym 
> > 
> > 
> > Venkatesh Raghavan píše v Pá 26. 10. 2007 v 17:03 +0900:
> > > Hi Luca,
> > > 
> > > Luca Casagrande wrote:
> > > > Hello everybody.
> > > > 
> > > > What do you think about an Ubuntu repository managed by OSGEO?
> > > 
> > > Great idea. I am all for it.
> > > 
> > > Venka
> 
> 
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Jachym Cepicky
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