[Xastir-Dev] Xastir as official Cygwin package

[Curt Mills, WE7U]

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Bill Vodall - WA7NWP wrote:

> So would getting Xastir set up as an official Cygwin
> package and part of their distribution be a good
> thing or a bad thing?

I'm not sure.  It would need to play with the other Cygwin packages,
including a perhaps broken ImageMagick package.

Are you thinking about making packages for Shapelib, libproj,
libgeotiff, and whatever else we can work with on Cygwin?
Libtiff/libgeotiff version incompatibility and header availability
for libtiff is another problem to tackle.  Sound programs also.

My view is that Xastir is most useful with Shapelib added in, but
perhaps that's more of a U.S./Canada-centric view as ESRI software
doesn't appear to be as popular in the rest of the world.
ImageMagick gives people access to online maps and lots of image
maps.  The online maps are mostly useful in U.S./Canada again.

The problem is that we have to compile for specific libraries, and
then we'd have big problems if they weren't installed on the
end-user system.

So... What libraries would be available for use from the package?
Perhaps the code could be tweaked so that it would use any of the
libraries if available?  Another option would be to compile it all
together and make a super-package.

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