R: R: [gdal-dev] GDAL & Python

[Christopher Barker]

Marco Pasetti wrote:
> I'll try to reply as best as possible, it's very late here... And my poor
> english becames horrible when I'm tired ....

no problem -- it can wait until tomorrow!

> I should try again and write down the outputs.

that would be great.

> I rapidly read it; I should work on the problem, but I'm working on a larger
> project, and python enabling is just a part of it... And the former is again
> a little part of another bigger project I'm working on, that is my
> university thesis... I'm really sorry, I have no such time to spend on it...

no problem, we all do what we can.

> However I guess that the easiest way to enable python bindings in GDAL would
> be to build python itself with MinGW

I'm not so sure -- then you have to build all of Python, and who knows 
what other extensions! The whole point of mingw is that is can build 
stuff that works with regular old windows applications, and I have 
successfully built python extensions with it, so it should be doable.

> I'm working on a building guide for both GRASS and QGIS as native windows
> binary. It's still a WIP, but if you want you can give it a glange:
> http://www.webalice.it/marco.pasetti/grass/BuildFromSource.html

Thanks. I'm using a slightly older version of msys -- maybe I'll try 
that upgrade, and see id that helps any.

> target is to obtain a GRASS+QGIS build as most complete as possible...

The python bindings to QGIS are getting a lot more use these days -- are 
you building those?

-Chris
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