[gdal-dev] Ruby bindings

[Robert Coup]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
wrote:

> Selon Ari Jolma <ari.jolma at gmail.com>:
>
> > 19.03.2015, 05:55, Even Rouault kirjoitti:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > The build of Ruby bindings is broken in trunk. See
> > > http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/5880
> > >
> > > The situation is that, in years, nobody has really maintained them, so
> it
> > isn't
> > > even sure that they work at runtime once compilation issues are fixed.
> So
> > we
> > > might just have to wipe them out, or remove them from configure, if
> nobody
> > steps
> > > up to maintain them. Opinions ?
> >
> > IMO, remove from configure. Or, at least make it non-automatic.
>
> It is non automatic at the moment, but it doesn't make sense to provide an
> option that when enabled cause a build failure.
>

Part of the problem is Debian seems to have a
turn-on-all-the-build-options-humanly-possible policy, so anyone rebuilding
debs for internal use (*cough* me) tends to start from the latest
Debian/Ubuntu build config and tweak as needed.

Rob :)
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