[Xastir] Archaic default map

[Lee D Bengston]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 8:15 PM we recorded - oops - I mean Tom Russo <
russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:

>
> --- <snip> ---
>
> So here's the survey:
>
>   - If Xastir stopped letting you turn off shapefile support, and required
>     it just like we require Motif and X11, would you be beside yourself
> with
>     rage?
>

Nope, I usually enable it anyway.

>
>   - If, as is called for in bug #128,
>     https://github.com/Xastir/Xastir/issues/128, we also made PCRE
>     a mandatory third party library and made DBFAWK support (which
>     is the only thing that uses PCRE in Xastir) unconditional,
>     would you revolt?
>
> No, the only way I've ever used shapefiles is in conjunction with DBFAWK.

  This is pretty much necessary anymore, because
>     the alternative, hard-coded shapefile rendering, hasn't been maintained
>     in years and most of the shapefiles for which there is some hard coding
>     are almost as ancient and useless as worldhi.map.  We plan to remove
>     that option for the next release.
>
>   - Do you have any favorite world shapefile maps that might be suitable
>     as a world-wide default map that is shown when Xastir starts for the
>     first time (until told otherwise), to be included (and maintained) in
>     the Xastir source tree and always installed?
>
> I do not.  Normally with offline maps - shapefiles or otherwise - I'm
looking for specific maps in my area, so I don't have a feel for what's out
there for the world.

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Regards,
Lee K5DAT
~ 4mi SSE of Portage, WI


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