[GRASS-user] Which ELGIS repository for SL6 on installing "wx" components

[Markus Metz]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:02 PM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:
>>> Why not ?
>>
>> Because the packages are too old for my requirements as a GRASS
>> developer. I am for example using proj-4.8.0, gdal-1.10.0, geos-3.3.8
>> with GRASS 7 and like the combination of a solid operating system with
>> recent packages where I want recent packages.
>>
>> For production work, ELGIS seems fine with the exception of GRASS
>> which IMHO should be upgraded to the latest stable release 6.4.2.
>
> Actually ELGIS Testing (http://elgis.argeo.org/repos/testing/6/elgis/)
> provide much more recent packages (GRASS 6.4.2 among them) and is as
> stable (maybe even better quality...) than ELGIS Stable.
>
> See package matrix here :
> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Enterprise_Linux_GIS#Packages_matrix

Nice! I did not look at the Testing repo before. The packages in ELGIS
Testing seem to me ready for production work.

>
> There has been a big switch over the last few months since we now use
> a fork of the Fedora/EPEL git repositories, in order to better
> integrate with their efforts.
>
> ELGIS Stable hasn't yet be replaced, simply because I have migrated
> only the "core" packages (geos, GDAL, GRASS, PostGIS, MapServer, QGIS)
> and not the secondary ones yet.
>
> I must admit that I could not find enough time to keep the appropriate
> level of quality and updates lately, since my company has become less
> focused on GIS than it was two or three years ago (the main driver for
> creating ELGIS back then).
>
> Hopefully I will be able to finalize this switch properly over the summer.
> I will then focus on getting other people involved in actually
> packaging and building the packages, so that I'm not a bottleneck
> anymore.
>
> I'll let it know on various lists (GRASS among them, of course) when
> we are back on track, because our mission statement is (was...)
> precisely what you need: latest free GIS software on a stable basis.
>

Thanks a lot for your efforts!

Markus M

> Cheers,
>
> Mathieu
>
> PS: My company and myself are still committed to host the ELGIS builds
> and repositories in the foreseeable future. We have resources
> allocated for that, just too little with regard to my time.