[Tile-serving] Renderd and building a tile server from components

[Paul Norman]

> From: Frederik Ramm [mailto:frederik at remote.org]
> Subject: Re: [Tile-serving] Renderd and building a tile server from
> components
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 11/22/2013 04:41 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
> > Now I've come to the tough two parts: renderd and tilemill.
> 
> If you want to include Tilemill then you don't need Carto as Tilemill
> can export Mapnik XML.

I guess installing Tilemill does bring in carto, but I had thought of 
tilemill as more of a side-branch.

> > I'm interested in thoughts on the best way to manage this. I'm not
> > opposed to instructing to build renderd from source, but there are a
> few
> > things to consider
> >
> > - Interactions with package management
> > - Increased difficulty, particularly of renderd setup
> > - Upgrading, both of renderd and packages on which it depends
> 
> You could also use Tirex instead of renderd, which will still of course
> have a dependency on Mapnik.

I've thought about Tirex, mainly to avoid renderd.conf. Of course, that 
doesn't make package management or upgrading any easier than renderd from 
source.

> Also, your list doesn't include mod_tile (unless you subsumed that under
> renderd).

I've been including that with renderd, but if I had Tirex I think I'd have 
to add it as another item.