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

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 02:12:33PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> 
> Just thought of some more things:
> 
> *) The docs need to get updated to talk about the private version of
> Shapelib.

Yeah.

> *) Will GDAL/OGR and the private Shapelib both install properly into
> Xastir at the same time?  If not, then we need notes in the Shapelib
> and GDAL/OGR docs that talk about installing Shapelib separately
> first.

GDAL does not use shapelib.  It has its own  shapefile handling. 

> *) Change the get-maptools.sh script to skip Shapelib now?  Should
> we deprecate the get_shapelib.sh script?

A most emphatic NO.

Internal shapelib support should be considered a last resort of those 
uninterested in pursuing proper shared library support.  Anyone interested
enough to want to use xastir seriously should install shapelib properly.
Only if it's a big problem to do so on their system (like, there's no
package for it, or they just don't care about code bloat) should the internal
one be used.

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