[Freegis-list] Free Software GIS suite project?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 03:32:44PM -0700, Tyler Mitchell wrote:
> > Agreed. Frank Warmerdam replied to my message & we have swapped
> > a few off-list emails discussing it. We thought a precompiled
> > binary .tar.gz package comprising a range of interoperable FOSS
> > GIS packages which can be simply installed into it's own tree 
> > and was distro independent was perhaps a  better
> > approach than a distro oriented one. 
> 
> I too agree with a distribution independent, binary package.  

I fear that this will not be easy technically.
Binaries highly depend on the system libraries which are very
different between distributions and even major release numbers
of distributions. If we want to have really stable software
especially with something like PostGIS it has to be adapted to the
target system.

Note that www.openpkg.org is the best solution to the problem that I
know, but it would only work for server packages.


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