Paolo, I was in no way impeaching the quality of the Debian GIS packages. I have found them excellent and the effort is much appreciated. I have had issues in the past with the quality of some other Debian packages, but those as I said are in the minority -- most are well done.
Cheers, THK On 12/17/06, Paolo Cavallini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > No, I was talking about debian testing. It is the most updated > distribution for GIS. I do not know much about the far past, but all > current packages are in *very* good shape, up to date, and have been > this way in the last couple of years (thanks to the DebianGIS project). > Anyway, we don't want to start a flame war, don't we? I was just > suggesting the easiest way to get recent packages through a single > command. > pc > Tim Keitt ha scritto: > > You mean Ubuntu lags behind Debian unstable. Debian unstable is > constantly > > being updated. This is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on > your > > perspective. I ran Debian unstable for several years and believe me the > > quality of Debian packaging varies a lot. Most Debian devs are quite > good, > > but some are downright sloppy. YMMV. If you want a super stable > > distribution, Debian stable is great, but tends to lag a couple of years > > behind current development. Ubuntu snapshots Debian unstable twice a > year > > and cleans up the mess. You can track the development version of Ubuntu > if > > you want and it will get you closer to Debian unstable, but with > possibly > > more breakage. > > > > I've not had any problem with GIS on Ubuntu except interfacing with > CRAN. > > The problem is CRAN is on a rolling update model without any policy > about > > backward compatibility. (A little like Gentoo, which I also like, but > can > > be very very messy). I think the R community needs to start thinking > about > > having stable/unstable branches with a 6 month changeover cycle. > > > > THK > - -- > Paolo Cavallini > email+jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.faunalia.it > Piazza Garibaldi 5 - 56025 Pontedera (PI), Italy Tel: (+39)348-3801953 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFFhPIu/NedwLUzIr4RAlNRAJ98SQWAOH1y04/2+ZKBLbeKoLBY6wCeMAci > o4Y3GOHl5s22K+nboVZg0L0= > =OOw2 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-Geo mailing list > R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo > -- Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin Contact info and schedule at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/ Reprints at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/papers/ ODF attachment? See http://www.openoffice.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
