This are backports of Ruby 1.8.2 for Debian woody. They are the build from Akira Yamada’s unstable Debian 1.8.2-2 ruby package. In order to build them I had to use a few backports and apply a few dirty hacks - see the changelog. Use our packages at your own risk - remember it was a “quick” hack - but please do report back to us us any bugs you’ll find. Read on

Introduction MapDesk is a UMN MapServer based map editor and viewer. The built-in map file editor supports syntax highlighting, context-sensitive help and a preview function. Screenshot Features Standalone application, no need of UMN MapServer CGI Built-in map file editor Built-in viewer with map file preview, zoom, pan, etc. Preview of the legend Platform-independent architecture Download You can download the fully functional MapDesk binaries, now in the version 0.7.0: Debian package RPM package Windows ZIP file (Unzip and start mapdesk. Read on

SDE Raster support These enhancements to Mapserver 4.2.0 add support for SDE raster layers. A function msSDELayerQueryByAttributes for fast queries on SDE layers is also included. Usage: CONNECTIONTYPE sde CONNECTION "mapserver.gis.gr.ch,port:5151,'',username,password" TYPE raster DATA "KONTEXT.LANDESKARTE_50_KOMBINIERT.IMAGE,SHAPE" The connection has the following arguments: server,instance,database,username,password The work was kindly sponsored by the GIS-Kompetenzzentrum of Graubünden, Switzerland. SDE Query speedup This patch against Mapserver 4.2 activates the call of msSDELayerQueryByAttributes. --- ms-4.2.3.orig/mapquery.c 2004-09-29 09:47:26.000000000 +0200 +++ . Read on

My patch to Dobrica Pavlinusic’s mysql2pgsql has been integrated. The script now lives here. Read on

Here is a webalizer package compiled for Debian woody i386 compatible systems and linked against the libgd2 library from AgreomaTIC. The reason why I had to recompile webalizer is that woody’s webalizer links against libgd2 and versions 1.0.12 of libpng2. The “new” libgd2 libray from AgreomaTIC links against libpng12-0 version 1.2.5.0-4 which will make the linker become all uneasy and spit out errors like the following: libpng warning: Application was compiled with png. Read on