Thanks again, Dane- I'll give that a go tomorrow. I'm really not a beginner - been doing software development for over 30 years now. I can figure out most anything, if the doc is there (and it's accurate and up to date). I'll more than happy to help out with publishing doc on how this beast works, once I learn it.
Dane Springmeyer wrote: > Martin, > > Good news. So did you download and build trunk or install SCons > separately? > > Regarding APIs, there is both a C++ api and a Python API. > > I assume you are looking for Python API documentation? You can get > basic boost::python generated api documentation through pydoc. > > Also. I've been starting to write docstrings for the major classes, > like mapnik::Layer and mapnik::Map. > > For example do: > > $ pydoc -p 8080 # to serve all your python documentation > > Then go to http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html > > And notice a few classes with docstrings at > http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html#Layer or > http://localhost:8080/mapnik._mapnik.html#Map > > The problem with PyDoc is that it's often too much for beginners. One > solution is to poke through the examples code here: > > http://code.google.com/p/mapnik-utils/ > > What we really need is some nice narrative documentation, but that > hard to find time for. > > Dane > > > > > > On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Michael L Martin wrote: > >> Thank you, Dane- >> >> This also corrected some compile-time errors I was seeing. >> Being very, very new to mapnik, is there a convenient place on the >> web where one can browse the API? All I see on the documents link >> is the install doc and the tutorials. >> >> Thanks, >> Mike >> >> >> Dane Springmeyer wrote: >>> The version of Scons-local bundled with Mapnik 0.5.1 is not compatible >>> with Python 26. >>> >>> However, Mapnik trunk fixed #164 but upgrading the version of SCons- >>> local distributed with mapnik (in Trunk) and the upcoming 0.6 release >>> works great with python 2.6 >>> >>> So, you can either upgrade to mapnik trunk or like Nico recommended, >>> build mapnik with an external install of SCons. >>> >>> The syntax for that would be: >>> >>> $ cd mapnik_source_code >>> $ SCons # instead of python scons/scons.py >>> >>> Dane >>> >>> >>> >>> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:28 AM, tschobber tschöbbi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I have some troubles installing Mapnik 0.5.1 from source on >>>> openSuse11.1: When I run the scons.py in the source directory, I >>>> always get the following error: >>>> >>>> /usr/bin/python2.6 scons/scons.py >>>> scons: Reading SConscript files ... >>>> /downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/SCons/ >>>> Platform/posix.py:37: DeprecationWarning: The popen2 module is >>>> deprecated. Use the subprocess module. >>>> import popen2 >>>> /downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/SCons/Tool/ >>>> msvs.py:37: DeprecationWarning: the md5 module is deprecated; use >>>> hashlib instead >>>> import md5 >>>> Building on Linux ... >>>> Checking for C library m... AttributeError: 'NodeList' object has no >>>> attribute 'name': >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/SConstruct", line 174: >>>> if not conf.CheckLibWithHeader(libinfo[0], libinfo[1], 'C') and >>>> libinfo[2]: >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/SConf.py", line 606: >>>> ret = apply(self.test, (context,) + args, kw) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/SConf.py", line 946: >>>> call = call, language = language, autoadd = autoadd) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Conftest.py", line 510: >>>> ret = context.BuildProg(text, suffix) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/SConf.py", line 793: >>>> return not self.TryBuild(self.env.Program, text, ext) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/SConf.py", line 766: >>>> return apply(self.sconf.TryBuild, args, kw) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/SConf.py", line 530: >>>> nodes = builder(target = target, source = source) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Environment.py", line 214: >>>> return apply(MethodWrapper.__call__, (self, target, source) + >>>> args, kw) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Environment.py", line 178: >>>> return apply(self.method, nargs, kwargs) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Builder.py", line 614: >>>> return self._execute(env, target, source, OverrideWarner(kw), ekw) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Builder.py", line 548: >>>> source = self.src_builder_sources(env, source, overwarn) >>>> File "/downloads/mapnik-0.5.1/scons/scons-local-0.97.0d20071212/ >>>> SCons/Builder.py", line 727: >>>> match_suffix = match_src_suffix(s.name) >>>> >>>> I've read this page (http://trac.mapnik.org/ticket/164) but I don't >>>> have any idea how to upgrade the scons.py because it is a single >>>> file just for the installation, or am I thinking wrong? >>>> >>>> I'm a big newbie on Mapnik :( and I would really appreciate if you >>>> could help me! >>>> >>>> Greetings, >>>> >>>> Martin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Jetzt 1 Monat kostenlos! 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