[El] QGIS 1.5.0 in elgis-plus-testing (with python plugins support)

[Peter Hopfgartner]

--------Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote--------
Subject: Re: [El] QGIS 1.5.0 in elgis-plus-testing (with python plugins support)
Date: 04.10.2010 21:33

>> I've followed your instructions and it installed without problems.
>Loading some random shape files or connecting to a PostGIS was fine.
>
>Cool!
>
>There are a few (minor) problems though:
>
>1 - GDAL tools plugin not working
>=> probably due to the fact that our gdal-python package is built
>against base python (2.4)
>I had a quick look and I see no quick and easy way to have a
>gdal-python26
>
>2 - PostGIS Manager plugin not working
>=>  requires  Psyco PG, same probably: python-psycopg2 from EPEL is
>built against base python (2.4). This one should be easier to fix, by
>creating a python26-psycopg2 (cf. below)
>
>More generally, we now have quite a systematic approach to transform
>python-* packages in python26-* packages.
>
(...)

Should then all GIS python bindings be rebuild against python 2.6, e.g. mapserver-python, gdal-python, geos-python and GRASS? Probably some people using Python would then appreciate to have python-numeric, too. And a lot of other libs.

Would this be necessary only for having QGIS 1.5 on RHEL/CentOS 5.5?

Or would it be better to wait for RHEL/CentOS 6, since it should land within the next few months? I doubt that there are currently a lot of people running CentOS 5 as their GIS desktop of choice.

>
>Cheers,
>
>Mathieu
>

Regards,

Peter