[mapserver-dev] Tile Access API

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:30:44PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 02:02:12PM -0500, Stephen Woodbridge wrote:
> No one said IT was smart, look at the blind trust of .NET code. ;)
> 
> But seriously, having a small purposed C application is easier to vet, 
> if only emotionally, than loading 20+ additional packages and worrying 
> about how each of them is configured from a security point of view.

How does TileCache result in "20+ additional packages?" I think you're
jumping into the GDAL topic, where you've already been told that this is
a packaging problem, not a GDAL problem: TileCache is the same,  

Depends: ${python:Depends}
Recommends: python-imaging
Suggests: python-mapscript (>= 4.10), python-mapnik, memcached,
          python-memcache, python-boto, python-flup, python-paste, 
          python-wsgiref
  -- http://svn.tilecache.org/trunk/debian/control

You can install any of those, and you get support for various parts of
the code, but there is no need to install them as dependancies for the
code.

Anyway, we're arguing in circles. I understand the problem, I just don't
think that the described solution (mapcache.cgi) is really the most
sane solution to the problem. 

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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