[ gpsdrive ] New Version gpsdrive-2.10pre5 is online

[Chris H]

On Thursday 10 July 2008 03:30:14 Guenther Meyer wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 10 Juli 2008 schrieb Chris H:
> > I was wondering, is it possible to separate out the mapnik dependencies
> > for those of us who done use it and also for those like myself who would
> > love to use it on an EEEPC. I suppose the options are present are to drop
> > back to previous versions.
>
> it is possible, to compile without mapnik support.
> maybe we should provide a binary package (gpsdrive_lite ?) for this version
> also...

The other option would be to provide detailed notes on how to build it without 
mapnik support for the uninitiated. More advanced users could then provide 
the packages as usual as long as its officially supported or approved. This 
would go a long way to support gpsdrive on smaller SDD units which are all 
the rage right now. Thanks for considering it. 

The other issue is however, on smaller SDD based units there are many who 
would want to use mapnick support. The challenge then becomes to strip out 
unneeded features and make it as small as possible. I guess it all depends on 
what hardware you want to support officially. I don't know the application 
well enough at this point to know its full footprint once installed, but the 
world map boundaries file I had to download to get it working (deb) on my 
workstation was over 450megs alone. 


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/ch