[DebianGIS-dev] OpenEV2

[Antonio Valentino]

Hi Paolo,

Il giorno Sat, 29 Jan 2011 19:11:26 +0100
Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> ha scritto:

> Are we sure OpenEV is still useful, given the progresses of other
> packages?

Well, I think that openev has a valuable asynchronous painting engine
that can be useful in case of very large datasets (even ones
with complex data type).

Which are other tools you are referring to?

Anyway, IMHO, if openev is considered no more useful it should be
removed from the ToDO list.


> Thanks.
> 
> Il giorno sab, 29/01/2011 alle 13.13 +0100, Antonio Valentino ha
> scritto:
> > Hi list,
> > from some time it is available a development version of the OpenEV
> > viewer [1] that uses gtk2 instead of the outdated gtk-1.2 (OpenEV is
> > currently in the DebianGis ToDo list [2]).
> > 
> > The upstream code seems to be deeply re-organized with respect to v
> > 1.8 so I wonder if it make sense to try to update (maybe in a
> > branch) the current openev package [3] (I should contact the
> > author) or if it is better to create a new openev2 package from
> > scratch (I have already some work done [4]).
> > 
> > Any hint?
> > 
> > [1] http://openev.sourceforge.net
> > [2] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianGis/ToDo
> > [3] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-grass/packages/openev
> > [4] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~a.valentino/+junk/openev2/files
> > 
> > regards


ciao

-- 
Antonio Valentino