Release 0.6.0
The Mapnik team is pleased to announce our 0.6.0 release.
This release has tons of new features, improved stability and better usability.
It has been made possible by contributions from our growing Mapnik community! Special thanks to Dane Springmeyer for all his efforts along the way. To see release highlights and a full list of new features:
Thanks to everyone involved for their great work!
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Posted by Artem Pavlenko on April 1, 2009
Hi, I want use Python since it is the programming language that one of my classes is using. I see there is a chance that 2.6 might not work, but v3.1.1 is suppose to be backwards compatible so I'll check and see and let you know.
Mapnik works with python 2.6, but we are waiting for boost python support for py3k to start working on that version. https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/browser/sandbox-branches/bhy