[Freegis-list] Re: [postgis-users] FOSS GIS suite project? (was Mandrake GIS)

[Frank Warmerdam]

Tyler Mitchell wrote:
>>What do you think about virtual package. Many distribution offer this 
>>option (Mandrake and Debian do, other probably). When you install a 
>>virtual package, you install all the dependencies of this virtual 
>>package (other package like MapServer, Grass, ..., ..., ...) and you 
>>configure them. I don't have to redo work that was previously done.
> 
> I think that is the general idea.  Many users don't want to (and can't) 
> deal with shared libraries, compiling from source.

Folks,

Well, I was envisaging a base package and then lots of add ons.  The base
package would be "fat" and contain most of the support libraries that
might ever be needed.

"virtual packages" seems to imply a greater degree of granularity then I
was expecting to achieve.

>>It will be very important to have a workplace. Which web site or 
>>organisation can given complete tools for building this suite ?
> 
> 
> Sourceforge is a natural option, though I'd say it's open for discussion. 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> May I suggest we drop this discussion from the Postgis user list and keep 
> it on Freegis, since many of us are on both lists?

I don't think sourceforge is the appropriate place to build the software.
They don't like you using too much disk space, or doing much stuff on the
main shell accounts.  And access to the compile farms is very ackward
as well as having limits on disk space and so forth.

So, yes, I agree we need a server to build on that we can issue shell accounts
to a number of participants.  That will be key.  Once we have that we could
start work pretty much right away.

I might be able to provide accounts and space on remotesensing.org but that is
still "in transition" just now.

Best regards,
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