[Bug 436704] Review Request: mapnik - a Free toolkit for developing mapping applications

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Summary: Review Request: mapnik - a Free toolkit for developing mapping applications


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436704





------- Additional Comments From tom at compton.nu  2008-07-29 13:47 EST -------
(In reply to comment #28)
> (In reply to comment #26)
> > If you're disappointed with the upstream, have you considered asking them about
> > the problems you are having? Only I don't recall seeing any trac tickets from
> > you, or questions on the mailing lists...
> > 
> > I have now gone over the svn code and as of right now it is compiling fine for
> > me on Fedora 9 but please do let us know if you encounter any further problems.
> 
> 1) Did you try on x86_64 any of *.input drivers ?!
> - they are unusable, I spent some limited time debug it, still cant catch the
issue.

Yes. I have rendered maps using both the cairo and agg backends from a mixture
of shapefile and postgis data sources on an x86_64 machine without any problems.

> 2) Notice the workarounds for scons, pretty ugly ones.

Workarounds? Is this in the spec file? I haven't looked at that yet as I was
building from my checkout by hand.

> 3) Olso autoconf/automake works better than scons but no python magic support.

I also prefer autoconf, but Artem seems to like scons and it seems to work so I
don't see it as a major problem.

> 4) Upstream now switched to libicu and some cairo stuff, no major release or
> some API documentation is done, and SVN is highly unstable.

I know. Aside from anything else I wrote the cairo stuff... OpenStreetMap is
running with libicu and cairo support, so it can't that unstable. We're about to
update to the latest svn head in fact.

>   I know upstream folks, this project will soon merge with osgeo.org , and
> pass their incubation process, at this point no one can tell what directions
> will take, but certainly a very good one whatever future choice will be.

I'm not aware of any plans for mapnik to become an osgeo project, and I don't
see it listed on the incubator, so I'm not sure where you're getting that
information from.

>   However the tool is still valuable, it can render and work fine if user
> know what is doing and know how to avoid problems, i plan to fix 64bit-ness at
> all and still carry all .spec warkarounds even if next release will be a
> complete revamp.

Perhaps if you just tell us what problem you're having we can fix it!

Tom


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