On Apr 5, 2009, at 12:48 AM, Andreas Volz wrote: > Am Fri, 3 Apr 2009 12:02:25 -0700 schrieb Dane Springmeyer: > > Hello Dane, > >> Hi Andreas, >> >> On Apr 3, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Andreas Volz wrote: >> >>> Am Thu, 2 Apr 2009 16:28:50 -0700 schrieb Dane Springmeyer: >>> >>> Hello Dane, >>> >>> do you think it would be possible to release an alternative package >>> with the autotools build environment beside the scons version? >> >> 'Beside'? you mean in addition? >> >> Isn't that the way it currently is? Sorry, I'm not very familiar >> with autotools. Perhaps you mean to include also a pre-build >> 'configure' as well? > > Yes, the configure script needs to be included. Without the users have > to install all the autoconf, automake, libtool stuff. > > In normal autotools environment you generate the package with "make > dist" or "make distcheck". I could simply add a rule to include the > SConstruct files as extra data. Then packaging would be easier. Or two > different packages: > > mapnik_scons-0.6.0.tar.gz > mapnik_autotools-0.6.0.tar.gz > > each with its own build environment. Many ways are possible. >
Ah, I see - thanks for the explanation. Perhaps Artem or Dominic will have ideas about the best way to package. Your idea of two different packages sounds good to me. >> I would love if you could document how to use the autotools stuff, > > I started a wiki page for it: > > http://trac.mapnik.org/wiki/BuildingwithAutotools > > It's only a basic start and I hope more detailed information will be > added in the future. > Looks great! >> both in trunk and how you imagine it working for releases. See: >> >> http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/124 > > I didn't know that ticket. The owner is 'andreas'. I'm a little > confused. My SVN name is 'andreas', but for some reasons I decided to > set my trac name to 'audifahrer'. So is this my ticket? > Yes, whoever 'andreas' is on trac matters less - I meant to assign it to you :) > But anyway my account had no email address. I found out that I own > another ticket as 'audifahrer': > > http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/291 > Yes, I just created that yesterday. Do you need help assigning an email to your account? > I changed something with agg yesterday. Thanks. I've to check that. > >>> Then >>> people could choose the build environment they like. I've still some >>> open points, >> >> Are there tickets for these? > > No. > >>> but I'll fix them in near future. >>> >> >> How soon? How about for the 0.6.1 release? > > One was the python support that I added at latest. But it's not yet > complete tested. Another one was the missing utils compile support. I > fixed that one also. > > I think that now all features are supported. What I really need are > testers and possible tickets. There are many build combinations and it > needs soooo long to build mapnik on my system. :-( > ya. >> http://trac.mapnik.org/milestone/0.6.1 >> >> Note: I've assigned a date of two months from now purely as a rough >> idea of how long it should take to close the existing bug tickets. >> Other dev's please let me know your opinions and add thoughts to the >> milestone notes. >> >>> And do you think it would be possible to include the kismet plugin >>> in the next major release? >>> >> >> We tagged 0.6.0 from svn, so the Kismet plugin is there, just not >> yet part of the SCons build scripts or 'wrapped' with a factory >> method in the Python Bindings. > > Would be great, because I've no knowledge of scons and only medium > knowledge of python. I use only the C++ API. > I can do this - it is quite simple. The only work is writing the python docstrings for the options of the kismet plugin. >> These would be the two things in my mind to do next, in addition to >> documenting on its own wiki page. > > Yes, a separate wiki page for kismet would be nice if more information > are added. > > I recorded a video how it looks while driving around. I'll post it on > youtube shortly. Maybe I could add a link to the wiki. > > regards > Andreas great, thanks for the update! Dane _______________________________________________ Mapnik-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/mapnik-devel
