a question about my mapviewer program

[Russell Nelson]

Bernhard Reiter writes:
 > For the sake of the FreeGIS community, a release certainly is nice
 > or is there CVS access? ;)

I'll do a release soonest.

 > 3)
 > The Thuban maintainer are interested in editing layers.
 > We even have an experimental drawshape extension, also see
 > the road map: http://thuban.intevation.org/roadmap.html

Excellent.  May I suggest that Extensions/drawshape/patch.diff be
applied to HEAD?  It looks like a useful patch for any Extension which
needs to use the right mouse button.

 > 1)
 > Usually dependencies are handled by packaging system, I have heard
 > fedora has a nice one. We made Thuban available on it, so usually
 > this is not a hassle for users. On the technological point of view:
 > depending on well developed libraries makes your application more robust.

Yesbut ... those libraries don't come with Fedora by default, and
aren't published on fedora.us.

 > Currently Thuban's raster capabilities are not that developed.

Yes, but at least they're there, so I can subclass them.

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