[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Jason Winningham]

On Nov 10, 2006, at 10:52 AM, Tom Russo wrote:

> Good lord.  Page for Ms. Pandora.

I'm glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that, else I'd be  
hosing out my keyboard again. (:

> If we need to bundle shapelib for some reason (and what was that  
> again?), then
> we should stop there.

IMO, the reasons to bundle shapelib are:

- good vector map support for the large number of easily available  
shapefiles out there

- the minor additional packages to make shapelib support pretty and  
efficient (DB, PCRE, et al) are typically easily installed, if  
they're not already there (much like X11)

- and the biggest one, IMO: shapelib does not build using the defacto  
standard "./configure; make; make install" model.  This makes it more  
difficult for the novice to get it installed and working.  I have to  
twiddle the included libtool script to get it to build on Mac OS X.

-Jason
kg4wsv