[postgis-users] PostGIS 2.0 Wishlist

[Brent Wood]

--- John Zastrow <jcz at northredoubt.com> wrote:

> My wish is for better support for RPM/deb installation. Particularly on 
> the "commercial-grade" OS's (e.g., RHEL/CentOS, Suse).
> 
> I know maintaining packages is time consuming, but this whole process is 
> painful.
> 
> http://postgis.refractions.net/support/wiki/index.php?PostgisRpmInstallation
> 
> Short of that, how about a guided install script that (1) checks for 
> Postgres sources on localhost, (2) fetches the latest postgis sources 
> (2b) including latest stable dependencies (e.g., Proj4 and GEOS), (3) 
> walks the user through the make process, (4) sets up Postgis users in 
> Postgres then (5) guides the user through setting up their first Postgis 
> database.


Perhaps this could be an OSGEO initiative? So RR aren't faced with maintaining
PostGIS dependency packages, or other packages (UMN Mapserver, GRASS & QGIS
spring to mind).

As an umbrella organisation for a FOSS GIS suite of interoperable applications,
it may be a more appropriate place to address this? 

I'll volunteer to help with OpenSuse 64 & 32 bit RPM's (if someone can help get
me going- never having built any RPM's before), or at least provide a box with
OpenSuse running which someone can ssh to when they need one to build the
packages.

I thought the DebianGIS guys had got Debian reasonably well sorted in this
arena?

Brent Wood