[Xastir] Wiki and versioning.

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 03:06:37PM +0100, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jronan at tssg.org> flavor, containing:
>  Hi,
> 
>  I've had to re-install a linux laptop in work and I'm putting xastir on it. 
>  So I was looking at the wiki entries and I noticed a few things. Firstly 
>  festival isn't mentioned in the wiki entry, do we want to mention it? 
>  Secondly gdal is at 1.4.0 (on dl.maptools.org), I'm not sure what the policy 
>  is on following versions.
> 
>  For giggles I've grabbed 1.4.0 to see if xastir compiles against it.

I sort-of track GDAL CVS on one of my machines, and it is rare (as in
every few years it might happen for a day or two) that new versions of GDAL 
break the xastir compile.  So 1.4.0 should work Just Fine.

GDAL's API is pretty stable, tons of geospatial codes rely on it.

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