[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Viji V Nair]

Hi Ralf

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:51 AM, Ralph Apel <r.apel at r-apel.de> wrote:
> AFAIK and remember, geoserver requires geotools which requires
> imageio-ext which in turn will require its own patched version of the
> gdal java binding.

Yes, its a chain. Thank you so much for the remainder.

Can we stick on the separate package gdal-java-imageio? Would it be
possible for you to find some time and patch the classes with new
sonames?

Thanks
Viji

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> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 01:36 +0530, Viji V Nair wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>> >>> we would need to decide whether to have only one soname pointing either
>> >>> to the "normal" or to the iioext "real" file or to have different
>> >>> sonames (in different packages, of course +1). If we use differing
>> >>> sonames, the iomageio-ext classes will have to be patched to look for
>> >>> that differing .so
>> >>
>> >> I would suggest different sonames in different package. This will be
>> >> safer and we can have a separate package.
>> >>
>> >> Mathieu, what do u think?
>> >
>> > I don't have much experience with JNI packaging but this indeed seems safer.
>> > I think that this very unlikely that people would use both at the same time.
>> >
>> > The question also is: which one would have as a dependency a package
>> > like, say, geoserver?
>>
>> Requires: gdal-java-imageio
>>
>> Ralf, what do you say?
>>
>> > Event though the one without imageio-ext is "purer", esp. from a FLOSS
>> > point of view, most people would probably aim at the best
>> > performances.
>> > That is were the alternatives mechanism would be handy.
>> >
>> > As Ralph suggested, let's try and test.
>> > An important part of the test would be to make sure that there is no
>> > side-effect on non-java stuff so that we can push GDAL 1.7.3 to stable
>> > quickly (that fact that we are doing this work now is independent from
>> > this maintenance release, so it should not be kept "hostage").
>>
>> There wont be any side effects to other non java stuffs, should work
>> properly as we are not even touching that part. I am almost finished
>> with the new spec, just thinking about the best way to pack the imgeio
>> jnis so that we can enter into the testing phase.
>>
>> >
>> > Many thanks to you both for your patience!
>> > I'm very excited to see a proper packaging for GIS Java apps around
>> > the corner...
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>> Thanks
>> Viji
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