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Subject: Re: RFP: GSHHS binary datafiles and the C header file
Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 10:24:02 -1000
From: Paul Wessel <pwes...@hawaii.edu>
To: Sylwester Arabas <sara...@igf.fuw.edu.pl>
CC: Paul Wessel <pwes...@hawaii.edu>
Also note that since gshhg.h will be in GMT, there may be a clash
between gmt5-dev and your gshhs-dev. Packagers can circumvent that by
having a dependency on either gmt5-dev or gshhs-dev.
-p
On Jul 3, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Paul Wessel <pwes...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
Hi all-
This email I was cc'ed on stimulated some discussion and resulted in a few
changes you should take note of:
1. I noticed the README.TXT on our ftp server had not been updated when 3.2.1
was released on 7/1/2014; now done.
2. Do NOT use gshhs_1.13_src.zip for getting gshhg.h since this is obsolete
code. I have cleaned up that ftp dir and placed older versions under a legacy
directory.
3. Do instead obtain the better documented and revised gshhg.h include file
from the link on the gshhg web site or that ftp directory. I just updated
those files.
Let me know if there are any issues or questions.
Cheers, Paul Wessel
On Jul 3, 2014, at 5:31 AM, Sylwester Arabas <sara...@igf.fuw.edu.pl> wrote:
Severity: wishlist
Dear All,
Since a few releases GNU Data Language (GDL) supports mapping data with
shorelines using the datafiles from the GSHHG package
(http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/).
The upcoming release of GDL brings improvements in this regard and it would be
great to offer these functionalities to Debian and downstream users. Therefore,
I'm kindly asking for creating two packages (both do not require compilation):
- gshhg-gshhs-bindata: at least all *.b files from gshhg-bin-2.3.1.zip
- gshhg-gshhs-bindata-dev: at least gshhs.h file from gshhs_1.13_src.zip
both files available from: ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg
AFAIU, GSHHG is an umbrella name, GSHHS is the shoreline part of GSHHG. The
shorelines are available in different formats, binary being one of them. Debian
already offers GSHHS shorelines in GMT packages but in CDF format. GSHHS name
is older than GSHHG and GSHHS seem to google better - that's why the suggestion
to keep it in the package name.
The header file suggested for the -dev package contains definition of the
binary data format for the current release of GSHHS. This would be a build
dependency for GDL. The *.b files are needed for GDL at runtime.
The GSHHS is licensed under GPL, see:
ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/README.TXT
Thanks, best regards,
Sylwester
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