mapnik2 2.0.1.2

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Introduction
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Official mapnik bindings repackaged in the distutils way to facilitate deployments.


MAPNIK2 Notes
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The python bindings are tied to the mapnik2 library version.

To use with:

- :mapnik2 library - 2.0.1: -> mapnik2 2.0.1.2 ::

easy_install -U mapnik2==2.0.1.2


- :mapnik2 library - 2.0.2: -> mapnik2 2.0.2.1 ::

easy_install -U mapnik2==2.0.2.1


Credits
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Companies
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|makinacom|_

* `Planet Makina Corpus <http://www.makina-corpus.org>`_
* `Contact us <mailto:python@makina-corpus.org>`_

.. |makinacom| image:: http://depot.makina-corpus.org/public/logo.gif
.. _makinacom: http://www.makina-corpus.com

Authors
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Contributors
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- kiorky <kiorky@cryptelium.net>

Installation
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Prerequisites
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Don't forget that you can play with LDFLAGS/CFLAGS/LD_LIBRARY_PATH dto indicate non standart locations for the following requirements if it applies.

You will have to have the includes and libraries for

- The new mapnik-config utility to be in your $PATH
- Boost_python linked to your python interpreter
If it is not installed in standart envionments, you ll have to handle the CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to find it, or use minitage ;)
- cairo / cairomm (optionnal but enabled if you compiled mapnik with cairo support)
- mapnik2
- The current python interpreter


BOOST NOTES
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To specify which boostpython lib to link against, you can use, you can use the following::

export MAPNIK2_BOOST_PYTHON="libboost_python.so.1"

Where you have on your filesystem::

/usr/lib/libboost_python.so.1


Easy_install with or without virtualenv
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* Say where to find mapnik-config by settings correctly your PATH environment variable
* When you're reading this you have probably already run
``easy_install mapnik2``. Find out how to install setuptools
(and EasyInstall) here:
http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall

::

virtualenv --no-site-packages test
source test/bin/activate
easy_install mapnik2

If your boost python installation is not in a standart place, just set the [LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LDFLAGS, CFLAGS] to find it.


Buildout
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Some developers use buildout_ to ease deployments.
* Say where to find mapnik-config by settings correctly your PATH environment variable
* Add ``mapnik`` to the list of eggs to install, e.g.
::

[buildout]
parts = somepart

[somepart]
recipe = minitage.recipe.scripts
...
# (options like include dirs)
...
eggs =
...
mapnik2

* Re-run buildout, e.g. with::

$ ./bin/buildout

You can read the buildout installation shipped with this egg for inspiration.

Minitage
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Some developers use minitage_ to ease deployments (a layer upon buildout).
Indeed, it takes care a lot of things like those boring compilation flags.
As an example, to work on this egg in development mode, you can boostrap it by doing this::
::

easy_install -U virtualenv
virtualenv --no-site-packages --distribute ~/minitage
mkdir ~/minitage/others




Install minitage, if you haven't yet ::

source ~/minitage/bin/activate
easy_install -U minitage.core

Initialize it (**mandatory**) ::

source ~/minitage/bin/activate
minimerge -s

To install the minilay for the mapnik2 egg development you can do
::

cd ~/minitage/others
git clone https://github.com/mapnik/pymapnik2.git mapnik-egg-(py26 or py27)
ln -fs ~/minitage/others/mapnik-egg*/minilays/mapnik-egg/ ~/minitage/minilays/mapnik-egg
#for python-2.6
minimerge -av mapnik-egg-py26
#for python-2.7
minimerge -av mapnik-egg-py27


Enjoy your installation
::

cd ~/minitage/others/mapnik-egg-py26
or cd ~/minitage/others/mapnik-egg-py27
./bin/mypy
>>> import mapnik2

For using mapnik2 inside your minitagified application:

- Inside the eggs parts of you buildout add::

[part]
...
eggs += mapnik2

- In your minibuild, merge the mapnik2 dependencies that you can find here:

- for python2.6: https://github.com/mapnik/pymapnik2/blob/master/minilays/mapnik-egg/mapnik-egg-py26
- for python2.7: https://github.com/mapnik/pymapnik2/blob/master/minilays/mapnik-egg/mapnik-egg-py27

- Reminimerge your project to build the mapnik2 egg
- Then add mapnik2 to your setup.py or buildout for it to be grabbed in your pythonpath.
- Rerun buildout, you're done


.. _minitage: http://www.minitage.org
.. _buildout: http://buildout.org
.. _pythonproducts: http://plone.org/products/pythonproducts

Changelog for mapnik2
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2.0.1.2 (2012-08-05)
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- Nothing changed yet.


2.0.1.1 (2012-08-05)
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- renaming release


2.0.2 (2012-08-04)
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- Multi Arch Support, thx to noirbizarre. [kiorky]
See https://github.com/mapnik/pymapnik2/pull/4


2.0.1 (2012-05-06)
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First public release of mapnik2 eggified python bindings