[Xastir] Reporting configure report

[Dan Brown]

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Tom Russo wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:07:47PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <wm5z at comcast.net> flavor, containing:
> > xastir 1.8.5 has been configured to use the following
> 
> > Building with rtree indexing ....................... : no
> 
> So, does anyone here still think that rtree should remain off by default?
> It's been in the code for almost two years, and I think it's had a good 
> experimental run.  The speed-up vs. memory trade-off seems worth it, 
> at least if you're doing a bunch of zooming and panning.  Time to turn it
> on by default?
> 

I'd say Yes, but with the caveat that it be such that if it won't ever
get used, it isn't built or included. 

Side topic -- At what point does something like libxastir get created? 


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