[Qgis-developer] INSTALL.txt

[Robert Szczepanek]

Hi Bernd,

> (...) Finding all these infos (and sometimes not very congruentt ones) 
> in
> different blogs and forums is ridiculously time-consuming. (...)

Several people invested time [1] to create QGIS.
You are welcome to be part of the project and improve build description.
After that read your e-mail once again...
Robert Szczepanek

[1] http://www.ohloh.net/p/3663/estimated_cost


W dniu 22.02.2014 21:32, Bernd Vogelgesang napisał(a):
> HI,
> In my struggle to manage to build QGIS from source, I finally found
> the  INSTALL-file on github. (No link to this from the website! At
> least I  couldn't find anything)
> 
> I just want to remark, that under
> 
> Optional dependencies:
> ...
> - for georeferencer - GSL >= 1.8
> 
> the version number can't be correct, cause there is no such high
> version  available.
> This might be no big problem for most people, but for a noob like me,
> this  is causing hysteria and increasing blood pressure.
> 
> I think it came into existence from an old version i found here
> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Minimal-requirements-td4157264.html
> where it sais:
> 
> - for georeferencer - GSL >= ? (works with 1.8)
> 
> 
> 
> In general, I would also like to remark, that it would be very nice to
>  have kind of a wiki for build instructions for the different
> platforms and  versions and the different related resources like GDAL,
> spatialite etc. as  well, cause I have to build GDAL myself for MrSID
> and FGDB-support (and  without that, QGIS on Linux is quite useless
> for me, at least not for  productive work).
> Finding all these infos (and sometimes not very congruentt ones) in
> different blogs and forums is ridiculously time-consuming. And when I
> already invest so much time in fiddling out this, I would like to have
> the  other parts state of the art as well, but there is unfortunately
> no common  place for instructions on the related items.
> 
> Cheers
> Bernd