[mapserver-dev] AGG dependency

[Steve Lime]

No flames from me. We used to distribute a version of GD with MapServer because the primary
distribution was fubar. Once that was fixed we ditched it.

I've seen nothing on the AGG lists to indicate *any* activity. There was the flurry of activity 
around forking but little since so this is low risk in terms of maintenance. If we can make the
build process more simple then that would be a good thing.

So, I'm +1 (assuming you don't get hit by a bus)...

Steve

>>> On 4/23/2009 at 1:02 AM, in message
<2922382e0904222302u4a44bae4o9f9f6cd713773fd0 at mail.gmail.com>, Thomas Bonfort
<thomas.bonfort at camptocamp.com> wrote:
> Devs,
> 
> I foresee this might by stirring a can of worms given the precedent
> with the GD library, but I would like to propose that we stop relying
> on an external agg library, and pull in our own subset of agg in the
> mapserver source tree:
> 
> * most of the agg code is templated, which means that the agg external
> library actually only contains a tiny subset of what we're using
> anyways.
> * building agg is a pain for our users (Makefile needs to be patched
> (adding -fPIC and building a shared library), and some distro's
> package are just plain broken (rhel notably). This is my primary
> motivation for the modification.
> * the design intent of the library was to be directly included in
> project trees rather than being built as a library
> * the agg project is to the least not very lively. It has been taken
> over by the community, but for the time being this has limited itself
> to having a large list of commiters but no actual coding going on. As
> such I do not see it evolving in a near future.
> * there would be no change in the mapserver code, only Makefile 
> modifications.
> 
> If we decide to go down this route, I volunteer to maintain the
> imported code and the corresponding Makefiles.
> 
> so:
> - can the mapscript maintainers speak up if this can be disruptive ?
> - bring on the flames :)
> 
> best regards,
> 
> thomas
> 
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