[Ubuntu] Mapserver build without fribidi support

[Alan Boudreault]

Personnally, I don't think this add would be valuable to be included in the 
debian package. There are probably a few other options that aren't compiled by 
default but much more used by users. 

Hope you understand my point. I would suggest you send an email on the 
debianGIS mailing list to see their opinion.

Thanks,
Alan

On October 8, 2009 08:01:03 am Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 06:54:36AM -0400, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > The only reason why MapServer in Debian/Ubuntu is not compiled with
> > fribidi support is that this feature is not much used. Only a few users
> > need it. However, it is very easy to recompile the deb package with
> > fribidi support.
> 
> Of course I can compile it myself but isn't it kind of the point of these
> packages that people don't have to? Maybe the fribidi stuff isn't used
> much because its that bit harder to use. Unless the fribidi stuff
>  introduces instabilities or makes everything much slower, I suggest to
>  include in the normal build.
> 
> Jochen
> 

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Alan Boudreault
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