Fwd: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mac OS X installers Panther vs Tiger

[Allan Doyle]

drat. I sent this fromthe wrong email acct...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Allan Doyle <allan.doyle at gmail.com>
Date: Mar 20, 2006 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Mac OS X installers Panther vs Tiger
To: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
Cc: mapserver-users at lists.umn.edu


On 3/20/06, William Kyngesburye <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:
> Well, I've been considering Python mapscript.  Things that have been
> stalling me are:
>
> - waiting for the Universal MacPython
>
> - recent focus on getting everything Universal
>
> - I wasn't sure of the status/stability/feature parity of python
> mapscript
>
> - I forgot (that universal thing, again, pushed a lot to the back of
> my mind)
>
> I have built it before as a test.  What's the problem with PROJ?  My
> installers include proj 4.4.9, is there a some build error?

I don't think there's a build error, but to build python mapscript,
simply using --with-proj=/usr/local/gislibs does not work. So I built
proj and installed it into a dummy location so that the mapscript for
python build would be able to pick it up.

  Allan

>
>
> On Mar 20, 2006, at 5:31 PM, Allan Doyle wrote:
>
> > First of all, thanks for the great packages!
> >
> > I just voted for Tiger-only. But I'm a pretty small-potatoes user,
> > I suspect your poll may get skewed by that kind of thing.
> >
> > However, as long as you're asking, I did run into trouble the other
> > day not being able to build python mapscript after having installed
> > all the Mac packages. I wrote this up:
> >
> >  http://www.eogeo.org/Members/adoyle/ad-snippets/pymapscript-build
> >
> > If I did something really stupid, please let me know...
> >
> >       Allan
> >
>
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>
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>
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