[Ubuntu] Mapserver build without fribidi support

[Alan Boudreault]

will verify if that optional module is viable, license etc..

On October 8, 2009 09:09:57 am Jochen Topf wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 08:39:21AM -0400, Alan Boudreault wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Then include those, too.
> 
> > Hope you understand my point. I would suggest you send an email on the
> > debianGIS mailing list to see their opinion.
> 
> No, I don't understand your point. How can I understand it when you have
>  given no reason except that you think its not valuable when clearly there
>  are people out there who could use this functionality. About everybody
>  making OpenStreetMap maps for instance, they are full of Hewbrew and
>  Arabic texts. And I haven't heard any reason why including it would be
>  problematic.
> 
> I applaud all the work that you and others put into maintaining those
>  packages. Wouldn't it make sense to make them useful to as many people as
>  possible?
> 
> Jochen
> 

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Alan Boudreault
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