Re: pre-ITP: New category Gis?

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Charles Wilson schrieb:

> Reini Urban wrote:
>
> > I plan to ITP the following GIS packages in the next days.
> > Have to wait for some postgresql decisions upstream.
> >
> > proj (but maybe Charles wants to keep his ITP)
> > geos
> > gdal (includes libgeotiff, ogr and a python lib)
>
> Wait.  Does gdal include libgeotiff internally, or does it install the 
> actual libgeotiff DLL?
>
> If the former, then you'd also need a separate geotiff ITP (and then 
> your gdal build could have the choice of using the external geotiff, or 
> its own compiled-in geotiff).  If the latter...ick.  I don't like that 
> at all.

Well, there's no conflict. libgeotiff is linked statically.
It's preferred.
The gdal package is just is one really huge cyggdal-1.dll (3.3 MB).
And some gdal and ogr exe's, and the python module.
But libgeotiff, libtiff and so on is builtin.

list:
  /usr/bin/cyggdal-1.exe
  /usr/bin/epsg_tr.py
  /usr/bin/gcps2wld.py
  /usr/bin/gdal-config
  /usr/bin/gdal2xyz.py
  /usr/bin/gdaladdo.exe
  /usr/bin/gdalchksum.py
  /usr/bin/gdalimport.py
  /usr/bin/gdalinfo.exe
  /usr/bin/gdaltindex.exe
  /usr/bin/gdalwarp.exe
  /usr/bin/gdal_contour.exe
  /usr/bin/gdal_merge.py
  /usr/bin/gdal_translate.exe
  /usr/bin/ogr2ogr.exe
  /usr/bin/ogrinfo.exe
  /usr/bin/ogrtindex.exe
  /usr/bin/pct2rgb.py
  /usr/bin/rgb2pct.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gdal.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gdalconst.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gdalnumeric.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ogr.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/osr.py
  /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/_gdalmodule.a
  /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/gdal-1.2.3.README
  /usr/share/gdal/<data>
  /usr/share/man/man1/*

gdal-devel will contain the static lib, import lib and headers.
or should gdal-python be seperated?

current depends:
  crypt-1.1-1
  cygwin-1.5.11-1
  jasper-1.701.0-1
  libiconv2-1.9.2-1
  libintl3-0.14.1-1
  libjpeg62-6b-11
  libpng12-1.2.5-4
  libtiff4-3.6.0-5
  openssl-0.9.7d-2
  zlib-1.2.1-2

But I'll check if the included libtiff should be merged statically.
and how about dealing with:
* cygsqlite3.dll (jaari providing a shared lib?),
* cygpg.dll or pg.dll (rename upstream at postgresql?)
* your /usr/bin/cygproj-0.dll (dlopen'ed at run-time)
* using the jasper hack (GeoJP2)
and some more 6 external libs....

my current snapshot is at 
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/publ/cygwin/gis/gdal/ but this is not ready yet.

> I think I'd prefer to keep my ITP for proj (and libgeotiff; if there's 
> no conflict between gdal using its own internal version, even with a 
> separate libgeotiff package installed on the same machine), but I've 
> been waiting for the hubbub to die down.  (FYI: I work in a related 
> field, although not primarily focused on the open standards surrounding 
> GIS).

Yes please. libgeotiff causes no problem. Good to have all.

FYI: I used to work in mapping also some time ago.
But I only worked with commercial packages, which was a pain.
Didn't even notice the announcement of a FreeGIS CD for linux.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/