[Live-demo] 6.0 alpha4 Status

[Angelos Tzotsos]

On 06/17/2012 10:21 PM, Micha Silver wrote:
> On 06/17/2012 12:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> >  On 06/17/2012 01:57 AM, Hamish wrote:
> >>  Angelos wrote:
> >>  ...
> >>>  since there are not many things fixed from alpha3.
> >>>
> >>>  Thoughts
>
> I'd like to raise the question of spatialite versions again, before feature
> freeze. I don't want to be a nudnik on this, but the current mix of versions is
> not so good.
>
> By way of reminder: On OSGeo Live 5.5 we have the spatialite libraries and the
> CLI program installed from deb packages from the ubuntugis repos. In addition we
> installed the GUI programs (spatialite-gui and spatialite-gis) using
> pre-compiled binaries from the gaia-gis site. Back then we had version 3.0beta
> of the CLI program and ver 1.4 of the spatialite-gui.
>
> The current install_spatialite.sh script on 6.0 gets *everything* from the
> ubuntugis repo.  This leaves us with a newer version of the CLI program, 3.0
> stable, (the deb package "spatialite-bin") and recent versions of the
> libspatialite and librasterlite. However the most recent deb package for the GUI
> spatialite-gui is version 1.3 - quite old.  In fact a DB created from the
> command line (the newer version), with spatial indexes, *will not work* in this
> older GUI program since it lacks support for some new features!  So we're
> supplying two components of the same software suite that are incompatible. Not
> good...
>
> On the DebianGIS maillist there's been some productive discussion about
> spatialite - as Hamish pointed out recently. They have made good progress with
> the CLI package, and we now have a recent, stable libspatialite and
> spatialite-bin. But there are still dependency issues with the GUI program.
>
> We could just download the intermediary 1.4 version like we did for Live 5.5.
> But wouldn't it make more sense to grab the tarball for the latest version 1.5
> of spatialite-gui and compile it as part of the install script? This would give
> us 80% of the suite from debs and only the GUI program self-compiled. And the
> packages would all be of the same generation.
>
> And, of course if a newer deb for the GUI component comes out before our final
> release, it will be easy to change the install script to use it instead of the
> compilation.
>
>
> Regards,
> Micha
>
>
>
> -- 
> Micha Silver
> GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co.
> http://www.surfaces.co.il
>
Yes I believe this is a good suggestion.
I agree to have this mixture of compiled and pre-packaged binaries, it 
is better than having unstable or outdated non working versions.
But I have to ask:
Why is there a problem with dependencies in UbuntuGIS and we won't have 
the same when compiling the GUI part from source?

Regards,
Angelos

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Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos