[El] GDAL 1.7.3 in elgis-testing

[Viji V Nair]

Hi

On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>> This can be done with an if condition, we can modify the spec file
>> according to distro, so if it finds maven2 in pkg-config.
>
> That would be great!
>
> A complementary idea: maybe we could add a package gdal-jpp-compat (or
> something like that) in elgis-plus (which will probably have a
> dependency on JPP).

This cool, but library names and common functions are still an issue,
they can't co-exist. I am working on it.

>
> This package would just provide additional dependencies such as
> maven2, and maybe a few of the image-io hacks, etc., in order to
> smooth the integration with all these tricky bits.
>
> We could then keep gdal-java with the core JNI libraries in a
> non-updating-base repo (elgis or epel).

This is for sure we should, a clean version.

>
> As an example: internally, we produce mostly java apps but we don't
> deploy them with a JPP approach, using OSGi instead. So I have quite a
> few applications where we would mostly need to have the OS specific
> bit (the JNI libraries) properly built and installed. We would then
> ship the OS-independent java part as a repackaged OSGi bundle.
>
> (more generally, we of course need a consistent JPP approach in order
> to be able to package and deploy in a standard way geoserver, etc.)

hmm...geoserver and geotools are our next goal..

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Thanks
Viji