artemp/trac2github — Issue #73: Support MAPNIK_VERSION
Author: artemp
Created: 2011-10-09 20:11:48+00:00
State: open
Labels: Core_Library

It would be useful to define the major, minor version of mapnik in the code, so that mapnik can be configured to look in, for example, /usr/lib/mapnik/0.5/input for its input plugins. This is needed to support multiple .so version installed at the same time, which is itself a requirement for the Debian packaging. For the time being, I have provided a hack in the Debian packages which can be used at build-time, but it would be better to support this in mapnik itself.