[GRASS-dev] library so file name scheme and GDAL-GRASS plugin

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:50 PM, Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2011/4/18 Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org>:
>>> GDAL-GRASS-plugin needs to updated (to use only versioned library
>>> names).
>>
>> This is fairly unlikely to happen (in GDAL) so many packagers may start
>> to drop this important plugin.
>
> why do you think so.

Because in the past it was not so easy to get changes to the plugin through
and my patches for GRASS 7 are sleeping in the GDAL trac for already
2 years..:

http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/ticket/2953

>> Suggestion: Create the symlinks on Linux and MacOSX only with a
>> condition.
>> ?
>
> Probably yes.

Then that would be the "least cost" path IMHO rather than bothering elsewhere.

Markus

> Martin
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