[Xastir] Archaic default map

David A Aitcheson david.aitcheson at gmail.com
Mon Jul 29 08:07:39 PDT 2019


I agree with Curt and echo his opinion on this matter.

Dave KB3EFS


On 7/29/19 10:41 AM, Curt Mills wrote:
> 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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