[OSM-dev] remove link to mapnik.org svn?

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 16:39 +0200, Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)
wrote:
> > I think it should stay, or at least we should have a link to
> > http://mapnik.org/download/. 
> 
> I didn't want to remove the mentioning in the install.txt. 
> But I wanted to remove the external dependency in the svn.
> 

Now I understand. For some reason I thought you were talking about
removing a link on the wiki page. I don't see any reason why the OSM SVN
tree needs to pull in the mapnik sources. 

> > Not all distros have pre-compiled packages 
> > (I use Fedora which does not). 
> 
> Is there any chance to get fedora packages in the future?
> 

Keith Sharp has built some RPMs http://www.passback.org.uk/maps/rpms/ 
and there was some talk about submitting them to Fedora
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2007-March/003789.html 

	Jon