Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-24 Thread Rashad Kanavath
On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Margherita Di Leo wrote: > Dear All, > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Rashad Kanavath < > mohammedrasha...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Anita, >> >> I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages can be added >> or updated based on different compil

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-23 Thread Margherita Di Leo
Dear All, On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:26 PM, Rashad Kanavath wrote: > Hello Anita, > > I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages can be added or > updated based on different compilers and version. > > Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance > ossim.

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-21 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Even, On Sun, 21. Feb 2016 at 16:16:52 +0100, Even Rouault wrote: > Perhaps for example for GDAL packaging, I could try to see if there's someone > volunteering in the community to look after that one. Would be cool to have a > gdal-dev packge for example. I guess there might be some optional d

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-21 Thread Even Rouault
> Early after I joined there was still Frank Warmerdam who did a lot - but > that got less over time. Matt Wilkie did some work on python. And Martin > Landa took over GRASS. Except for some people on-and-off that's about it > - the rest mostly ended up here. Jürgen, Perhaps for example for GD

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-21 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Markus, On Sun, 21. Feb 2016 at 15:47:00 +0100, Markus Neteler wrote: > since I'm not familiar with compilation on Windows, could you briefly > indicate what's needed / which efforts to compile GRASS GIS with MSVC rather > than mingw given the recent efforts on the 64bit packaging? Just to bet

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-21 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi Jürgen, since I'm not familiar with compilation on Windows, could you briefly indicate what's needed / which efforts to compile GRASS GIS with MSVC rather than mingw given the recent efforts on the 64bit packaging? Just to better understand... Thanks, Markus __

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-21 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Rashad, On Sun, 21. Feb 2016 at 12:13:09 +0530, Rashad Kanavath wrote: > one is enough for an example. Sure, but not mentioning that it's the only one, might produce a wrong impression ;) > I agree on the ABI stability issue and usage of C api if available and I do > think that OSSIM should

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-20 Thread Rashad Kanavath
Hello Jurgen, On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Jürgen E. wrote: > Hi Rashad, > > On Mon, 15. Feb 2016 at 21:56:19 +0530, Rashad Kanavath wrote: > > Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance > > ossim. > > BTW that's the only example there is (at least AFAIK). And tha

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-20 Thread Jürgen E . Fischer
Hi Rashad, On Mon, 15. Feb 2016 at 21:56:19 +0530, Rashad Kanavath wrote: > Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance > ossim. BTW that's the only example there is (at least AFAIK). And that's only because OSSIM is insisting on using the GEOS C++ API that nothing else

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-15 Thread Landon Blake
I'm a MS Windows User at work. I'm not a C programmer, but I know enough to compile some code. I can help with compiling and testing on Windows 64 Bit. Landon On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Rashad Kanavath wrote: > Hello Anita, > > I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages ca

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-15 Thread Rashad Kanavath
Hello Anita, I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages can be added or updated based on different compilers and version. Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance ossim. This was discussed in https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/473#comment:7 IMHO,

[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

2016-02-14 Thread Anita Graser
Hi, OSGeo4W is a great project which brings together software from lots of our projects and many users rely on it. The volunteer team around OSGeo4W is not that big and I wonder how sustainable this is in the long run. From what I know, there are quite a lot of - mostly maintenance - issues on th