[gdal-dev] Homebrew Package Manager and libKML dependency on libkml 1.3

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 12-10-28 12:54 PM, Ragi Burhum wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I was looking into adding the libKML OGR driver to the ever popular Mac OSX
> package manager Homebrew <http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/>. After digging into
> why it wasn't building the driver, I realized it was because the libKML driver
> depends on version "1.3", which has never been released (it builds against trunk).
>
> Frank, I noticed you were a committer on that project
> <http://code.google.com/p/libkml/people/list> as well. Is there any way we can
> do an official libKML1.3 release? (Understandably, It is hard to convince any
> package manager to add an official dependency to a trunk version of a project).
> If not, does the OGR libKML use any specific functionality of libKML1.3 that it
> cannot live without?

Ragi,

I'm new as a libkml commiter and haven't actually contributed yet,
but I'll see what I can do to arrange a release.  I have also recently
built libkml support into OSGeo4W and had to use trunk.  Kind of ugly.

Best regards,
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