GDAL, GDAL-GRASS and GEOS-related questions.

[Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov newmail ru>]

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

Maybe we can test this method in FE and close this bug? What needs to be 
done?

Links:

http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-1.2.6.tar.gz
http://www.gdal.org/dl/gdal-grass-1.2.3.tar.gz
http://pkg-grass.alioth.debian.org/debian-gis/pool/libg/libgdal-grass/libgdal-grass_1.2.5-0.dgis.unstable.2.tar.gz

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?

We haven't problems with shapelib and PROJ (only absense of maintainer, 
- the same thing with GEOS) right now, so if everything with GDAL and 
GDAL-GRASS will be ok, we will be ready for preparing for inclusion 
QuantumGIS and GRASS to FE.