Re: [DebianGIS] Putting libgis into Debian GIS tasks (Was: RFS: libgis - virtual globe library)

[Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>]

Andreas Tille wrote:
> thanks for your work on libgis.  It nicely fits into
> Debian GIS and I would like to include it into the tasks
> which are currently defined and which are rendered at
> 
>    http://blends.alioth.debian.org/gis/tasks
>
> I would like to use this chance of getting a new package in
> to ask for reviewing the current tasks.

Hi,

what's libgis?

<with emphasis>
  --> please pick a less generic name for the package/library!
</>

the namespace collision will cause problems. fwiw GRASS has now
renamed its main library from that to libgrass_gis.so a couple
of releases ago, anticipating such a thing could happen, but I'm
not sure what is still out there and would rather not have to
deal with the consequences of someone's ./configure trying to
link to the wrong one.

please, please..

> Do you think they are matching the needs of our users?  I'm
> specifically a bit uncomfortable with the task
> "workstation" which looks a bit like a "everything else
> dustbin" and I wonder whether we could define a more specific
> set of tasks where for instance the package libgis-bin would
> fit into.

IM(professional)O a GIS Workstation is a known thing within
the field, and the nature of it makes it sometimes seem like
a cluttered carpenter's workshop. But that carpenter gets a bit
upset if you start taking away things from his massive wall of
just-the-right-tool-for-the-job.

that's not to say the task can't be refined, just that a
catch-all is sometimes exactly what is wanted.


2c,
Hamish