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diff --git a/devel/py-pyshapelib/pkg-descr b/devel/py-pyshapelib/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c50f12518fa3 --- /dev/null +++ b/devel/py-pyshapelib/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ + +Python bindings for Shapelib +============================ + +These are three python modules for shapelib: + + shapelib read/write shapefiles + + dbflib read/write dbf files + + shptree quadtree for shapes + +Shapelib is a free software library for reading and writing ESRI shape +files and can be found at http://gdal.velocet.ca/projects/shapelib. + +The bindings were partly created with SWIG, a tool that can generate +wrappers of C and C++ libraries for a variety of scripting languages. +It's homepage is http://www.swig.org. + +The bindings themselves don't have a homepage at the moment, but the +source tarballs/zip files can be downloaded from +http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/ + +WWW: http://ftp.intevation.de/users/bh/pyshapelib/ |