Category: Software

SQLite3 framework updated to 3.6.6.1.

Finally updated for libpng 1.2.33. I also finished up my framework build scripts (for those that would like to rool their own) with the UnixImageIO script.

Oops, Qgis 1.0p2 accidentally got built with GDAL 1.6beta, which is not ready yet. Fixed now.

Important update for PostGIS users – Postgres 8.3.4 (8.3.0-8.3.3 are OK) has a bug in the spatial indexing. Fixed in 8.3.5.

Qgis 1.0 Preview 2 is now available for testing.

Long overdue – SQLite 3.6.4. Cool new addition: Spatialite extension. Also added ICU (unicode functions) and R-Tree (spatial indexing) extensions. These are all automatically loaded, and are immediately available to the sqlite3 program and other software that uses the SQLite3 framework.

… I’m hard at work on more updates (when I’m not distracted by other stuff).

GEOS framework updated to 3.0.1.

FFTW3 framework updated to 3.1.3.

I also added a note about a common problem when installing Postgres.

Postgres updated to 8.3.4.

I fixed a linking problem with the internal Postgres library. This only affected the Leopard build, when the full Postgres was *not* installed.

Python MapScript never worked (and I didn’t have a good test to figure that out). Until now. The source of the problem was FastCGI support for the mapserv CGI — CGI functions are part of the main framework instead of just the mapserv program, and the framework then won’t load from python because part of the Apache environment is missing (or something like that).

I had tried a couple things to move CGI stuff out of the framework, with no success. So, I decided to drop fastcgi from MapServer completely. And, recent discussion on the MapServer mailing list pointed out that there is only a miniscule performance gain with fastcgi anyways.

I also added quick tests for mapserv CGI and Python MapScript.

While rebuilding MapServer, I also noticed that the FreeType framework headers were configured wrong. There are now fixed. (This is a developer update only – there are no changes in the framework binary for end-users.)