On Wed, 05 Jun 2002, Ian D. Stewart wrote: > Can anybody recomend a good GIS (Geographical Information System) > package for debian? I did a quick search with 'apt-cache search GIS', > but got a long list of unrelated results. I've found GRASS on > freshmeat, but there doesn't appear to be .deb available.
IMA (www.ima.sp.gov.br) is currently sponsoring the packaging of some GIS related software, but I hear MapServer and GRASS are f***** painful to package, and a major mess of dependencies, too. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian org) and ask him about the progress, last time I talked to him about it, he had preliminar packages that require a full php surgery on the system, and was trying to cleanup upstream mapserver enough to allow for less intrusive packaging... That is for MapServer. I don't know about how much progress the GRASS packaging has seen so far. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
