On 04-09-14 19:54, Barry Warsaw wrote:
On Sep 04, 2014, at 10:39 AM, Marcus Smith wrote:
>wouldn't that only update it for the*next* release of debian/ubuntu?
Generally yes. There's also backports, but that's more effort.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports
For my usecase it is mostly that I have a colleague that keeps doing
absolute magic with gdal. And when he says "this calculation can be done
with 30% of the effort if we use the one-month-old gdal version", then
you need *very* up to date ubuntu packages :-)
We did use (for this case) the ubuntugis-stable PPA, but that broke a
number of our servers somewhere in May or so as it also updated some
other dependency which caused breakage.
So... that's why Wheels started to sound nice. And compiling wheels
yourself and placing them on a server in a directory with various wheels
for a specific distribution... Sounds like the most standard option
right now.
Reinout
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