[Ubuntu] Google Summer of Code Satus

[Angelos Tzotsos]

Hi Jerome,

Thank you for your great contributions.

Is there time/plan to fix this issue?
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/ticket/1182

Best,
Angelos


On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Jerome Villeneuve Larouche <
jlarouche at mapgears.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As most of you know, I've been working on UbuntuGIS under the GSoC
> program, it's been going pretty well, but maybe not enough. I'm currently
> at week 11 out of 13 and there is still many things to be done.
> This email is to make a small report of what I've done and what needs to
> be done next.
>
> At week 11:
> ---------------
> What is done:
>
>  * All package in UbuntuGIS for Lucid, Precise, Quantal and Raring are
> updated to their latest version.
>  * New LibLAS package with python binding (no LASzip)
>  * New marble-qt package, install Marble without the KDE deps.
>  * Fixed the bugs caused by the libgdal1h update.
>  * Added the new libgeotiff package (1.4.0)
>  * Updated the libgdal-ecw-src pacakge to compile with the new ECW 5.0 SDK
> (there's still an issue with this one)
>
> Issues:
>
>  * The many issues caused by the libgdal1h seem to be fixed.
>  * Same thing with the issues caused by the new package name in Postgis.
>  * There is currently a problem with the new Libgdal-ecw-src package when
> trying to use Python-gdal and ECW support,I'm currently working on it, but
> if you have any idea what may cause the undefined symbol error, please post
> in this ticket http://trac.osgeo.org/**ubuntugis/ticket/34<http://trac.osgeo.org/ubuntugis/ticket/34>
>
> Java Packaging:
>
>  * Looked into packaging Geotools, but it doesn't seem possible to do it
> in the time frame I have.
>  * Tried to package the latest version of Osmosis to learn a bit more
> about Java Packages but I ran into problem while trying to compile it and
> its new build method doesn't seem to be supported for package, so I moved
> on.
>
> Suggestions (Improvement for UbuntuGIS):
>
>  * Make a new SAGA package.
>  * Create a new plugin similar to the ECW, but for Oracle support for
> Mapserver and GDAL, will start working on it soon.
>
> Other:
>
>  * Create a new repository in Debian for people who don't want to use
> Unstable but still need the latest GIS softwares.
>  * Complete new documentation for UbuntuGIS.
>
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-- 
Angelos Tzotsos
Remote Sensing Laboratory
National Technical University of Athens
http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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