[Gdal-dev] gdal and libgrass

[Markus Neteler]

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Silke Reimer wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:19:46PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 02:32:29PM +0200, Silke Reimer wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:59:39PM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:37:14PM +0200, Silke Reimer wrote:
> > > > > 2. libgrass is not yet included into the debian grass package (see [1])
> > > > 
> > > > There is another option: Radim Blazek wrote a new GDAL/GRASS driver
> > > > (see QGIS project for details). Frank considers to replace the old driver.
> > > > The new driver uses the GRASS libs directly, so the external 'libgrass'
> > > > is no longer needed then.
> > > 
> > > OK. This seems to be a good solution. Nevertheless this means that I
> > > will have to wait before I can include grass support into gdal,
> > > right?
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > I can not wait much longer until I build a new gdal package since
> > > debian sarge will be freezed in short time. So appearently grass
> > > support will not be included in debian sarge but in the debian
> > > version which comes next.
> > 
> > How much time is left to replace the GDAL/GRASS driver to get
> > it into Debian? It's important also for QGIS and useful for
> > MapServer.
> > I don't know when Frank will be back, but replacing it should
> > not ne too much work as Radim provided diff files.
> 
> OK. I misunderstood the situation: The patch from Radim is already
> the native GRASS-driver for gdal?

Right.
Frank received the latest version, should be

wget http://mpa.itc.it/radim/qgis/gdal/configure.in.patch2
wget http://mpa.itc.it/radim/qgis/gdal/grassdataset.cpp3
 
> Even then I hesitate to apply it for the next package update. One
> reason is that the debian people have already frozen parts of sarge.
> Such it becomes more difficult to get new things into sarge.

No problem for me, I'm no Debian user (those might be unhappy).

> Another reason is that I don't know how stable the patch is. Perhaps
> you can give me some more information about this. But I never tried
> it and I don't no whether it will break other things.

I'm using it daily here. It's as stable as the libgrass version
(IMHO) but you may ask the author. And it's naturally way easier
to install.

> My proposition: I will prepare a new gdal package today (I will do
> this anyway) but without the grass-patch. When there is time
> left next week I will try out the grass-patch and perhaps prepare a
> new package of gdal with grass support. I am not too confident
> though that this package will be into the next stable release of
> debian.

When might it reach a stable release of debian then (just to get an
idea)? 

Markus