Fedora 35 vs. Survex package

[Bill Gee]

I installed it on my test Fedora 35 machine.  It went right through - No problems!  :-)  Many thanks!

I do not yet see proj 8.2 for Fedora 35 in the repository.  They are still on 8.1.1.  I will keep checking.

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Bill Gee


On Wednesday, November 10, 2021 7:00:45 AM CST James Begley wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> Just to follow up on this after a busy couple of days.
> 
> Survex 1.4.1 builds and runs fine for fedora 35 (and earlier versions of
> fedora), and can be installed from the copr repository. Thanks to Olly for
> his hard work in getting survex to support later vrsions of proj.
> 
> Cheers,
> James
> 
> On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 at 22:41, Olly Betts <olly at survex.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 07:33:57PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 11:57:02AM +0000, Wookey wrote:
> > > > Survex works with proj8 now (and is in debian)
> > >
> > > Just to avoid confusion, as of yesterday there's support for PROJ >=
> > > 8.2.0 in the Survex git repository (git is the version control system we
> > > used) but a Survex release of this code (the first will be 1.4.0) is
> > > still to do, and this code isn't yet in Debian.
> > >
> > > This is likely to be almost all resolved by the end of the weekend.
> >
> > I've now released Survex 1.4.0 - see other recent email for
> > announcement,
> >
> > > The exception is if you're stuck with PROJ 8.0.x or 8.1.x packages,
> > > which would need additional work to support.  I'm hoping we can avoid
> > > having to worry about those but let us know if you're in this situation.
> > > So far the only stable distro release I'm aware with such a package is
> > > OpenBSD 7.0, which I would guess isn't widely used with Survex.
> >
> > We've managed to get the updated code to work back to PROJ 7.2.0
> > (many thanks to echarlie for testing this on 7.2.1 and 8.0.0, and for
> > identifying and helping to fix a performance issue with the changes).
> >
> > So there should be no issue of being stuck with a PROJ version we don't
> > support (and there's even some overlap in supported PROJ versions
> > between Survex 1.2.x and 1.4.x).
> >
> > Cheers,
> >     Olly
> >
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> >
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