[Qgis-developer] Re: qgis from svn

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

2007/2/16, John C. Tull <jctull at gmail.com>:
> Again, I was not very informative in my original email. Seriously, I
> am not usually such a poor communicator.

No worries I was half asleep when I responded to your emails too, so
it could just have been me not reading your messages carefully enough.

The wiki is where I started
> and got stuck. It might be work including information about dealing
> with this SIP problem that seems to have arisen since you originally
> added the new build instructions.


Good idea I'll try to do that on the weekend...of course its a wiki so
if you create yourself account and let me know your UserName I can
give you write access and you can just tweak the notes directly with
your additional thoughts & observations (they would be greatly
appreciated).

>
> I also changed all the libgdal.so instances and libpq.so instances to
> *.dylib. I did not know if that was necessary, but it did build fine.

Yes its stil neccessary if you are building using Williams frameworks.

> I would also suggest a brief mention of how to update your subversion
> directory using the 'svn update' command from the root qgis folder.

I could do or perhps just link off to another page on using svn (I
suspect we already have this documnented somewhere - we certainly have
some svn centric pages).

> There will be people unsure about that, although these may not be the
> people trying to build the bleeding edge stuff.
>
> Again, thanks for your help. Your blog tutorials are a nice resource.
> Please keep them coming!

Thanks - I need to go through all the existing ones and check they
still work with the changes in api in trunk. But I have many more
planned if I can just find the time....


I look forward to monitoring and taking
> advantage of the progress on Qgis.
>

Good. One last comment is that it would be better (for both of us) if
you communicate via the developer and or users mailing lists as:

1) if you have questions I can answer others may be able to
2) I dont have to answer the same questions many times when they are
asked and answered in a public forum
3) My time is limited and dont always have the ability to answer
individual queries

Best regards and happy QGISSing

-- 
Tim Sutton

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