On 06/17/2012 12:39 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
On 06/17/2012 01:57 AM, Hamish wrote: I'd like to raise the question of spatialite versions again, before feature freeze. I don't want to be a nudnik on this, but the current mix of versions is not so good. By way of reminder: On OSGeo Live 5.5 we have the spatialite libraries and the CLI program installed from deb packages from the ubuntugis repos. In addition we installed the GUI programs (spatialite-gui and spatialite-gis) using pre-compiled binaries from the gaia-gis site. Back then we had version 3.0beta of the CLI program and ver 1.4 of the spatialite-gui. The current install_spatialite.sh script on 6.0 gets *everything* from the ubuntugis repo. This leaves us with a newer version of the CLI program, 3.0 stable, (the deb package "spatialite-bin") and recent versions of the libspatialite and librasterlite. However the most recent deb package for the GUI spatialite-gui is version 1.3 - quite old. In fact a DB created from the command line (the newer version), with spatial indexes, *will not work* in this older GUI program since it lacks support for some new features! So we're supplying two components of the same software suite that are incompatible. Not good... On the DebianGIS maillist there's been some productive discussion about spatialite - as Hamish pointed out recently. They have made good progress with the CLI package, and we now have a recent, stable libspatialite and spatialite-bin. But there are still dependency issues with the GUI program. We could just download the intermediary 1.4 version like we did for Live 5.5. But wouldn't it make more sense to grab the tarball for the latest version 1.5 of spatialite-gui and compile it as part of the install script? This would give us 80% of the suite from debs and only the GUI program self-compiled. And the packages would all be of the same generation. And, of course if a newer deb for the GUI component comes out before our final release, it will be easy to change the install script to use it instead of the compilation. Regards, Micha
-- Micha Silver GIS Consultant, Arava Development Co. http://www.surfaces.co.il |
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