[Xastir] Archaic default map

Curt Mills curt.we7u at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 07:41:50 PDT 2019


On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 6:15 PM Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
>   - 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?

No. A reasonable change and I'm fine with it.


>   - 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. If we're doing Shapelib as a requirement I think we should do this
too. It's tiny.


>   - Do you have any favorite world shapefile maps that might be suitable
>     as a world-wide default map

No unfortunately.

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