GDAL, GDAL-GRASS and GEOS-related questions.

[Michael Schwendt]

On Wed, 25 May 2005 01:04:51 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:

> Hello, All!
> 
> Let's return to the GIS-related stuff: the problem was (is?) that GDAL 
> needs GRASS to be built with most features enabled, and GRASS needs (in 
> its turn) GDAL.
> 
> Where is the solution:
> 
> 	* to build GDAL --with-grass=no,
> 	* to build GRASS,
> 	* to build gdal-grass-plugin after all
> 
> They says, that folks from Debian-GIS-group already resolved this 
> circular dependency succesively with this technique.
> 
> http://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1964#c46

Btw, I replied to comment 46 (2005-04-09) on the same day in private.

> Maybe we can test this method in FE and close this bug?

Yes. When it became known that the Debian people started to work on that
plugin, it seemed reasonable to wait for the solution. The temporary
work-around to build GDAL without GRASS support was not picked up.

> What needs to be done?

To create packages for GDAL, GRASS and the plugin.

> Another one annoying thing is the status of GEOS, which needs maintainer 
> (the one and only trouble with GEOS, am I right?) - I need this package, 
> so could I (if no one will be) be maintainer?

Yes.

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