spatialite_gui home page

[Francesco Pelullo]

Ciao Sandro,

Just find links to latest precompiled Win binaries by myself... But sincerely this is not immediate at all.

I leave the reference links to the download page, for next users in trouble:

https://gaia-sins.it/gaia-sins/

Please can you update the spatialite_gui home?

https://gaia-sins.it/fossil/spatialite_gui

because it only has links to old source codes. My sysadmin* became suspicious about this... :-)

And, he asked if there are somewhere checksums for verifying downloads.

Thank you for your time

*yes, I need approval from IT guys when ask new software installed in working laptop.

Ciao

Francesco 

[sandro furieri]

Il 2026-02-10 12:01 Francesco Pelullo ha scritto:
> *yes, I need approval from IT guys when ask new software installed in
> working laptop.
>

Hi Francesco,

I find it absolutely normal, I would say obvious.
When you work on a company PC, which is perhaps connected to the
corporate
LAN, you certainly cannot expect to install software of your own choice.
The most basic rules of IT security require some kind of authorization
from
whoever manages the infrastructure.

> Just find links to latest precompiled Win binaries by myself... But
> sincerely this is not immediate at all.
>
> I leave the reference links to the download page, for next users in
> trouble:
>
> https://gaia-sins.it/gaia-sins/
>
> Please can you update the spatialite_gui home?
>

Be careful, because there is an obvious underlying misunderstanding.
Any open source project has the obligation to publish the source code,
but it's not at all required to distribute the binary executables for
all the different platforms (which are many: all the different distros
of Linux, Mac, Android and so on).

You don't say it explicitly, but it's easy to understand that you're
talking about Windows; which is an important and very popular platform,
but it's certainly not the only one existing.
This explains why on the spatialite_gui home page you can only find
the sources and the documentation but not the executables for Windows;
that's not the right place.

SpatiaLite has always directly supported binary distributions for
Windows,
but you can find them all in the appropriate section, as you've already
discovered by yourself:
https://www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/

Jumping to conclusions: a new updated version should be released in the
next few months.
It will be the right opportunity to refresh the website:
1. by adding a link to the source repositories advising users where they
can find the binary executables for Windows.
2. by adding MD5 checksums for packet verification (which seems to be
themost useful tip of your entire email).

bye Sandro

[Francesco Pelullo]

Il mar 10 feb 2026, 13:04 sandro furieri <a.fu...@lqt.it> ha scritto:

I find it absolutely normal, I would say obvious.

Sandro, I agree with you. 

The thing is, this administrator is half my age and, apart from Windows, it seems to me that he don't know any other OSs. 

Sometimes even a simple exchange of opinions about my desired software and the one approved and installed becomes a tug-of-war.

You don't say it explicitly, but it's easy to understand that you're
talking about Windows; which is an important and very popular platform,
but it's certainly not the only one existing.

Yes, of course I'm talking about Windows OS. In my personal computer, I'm used to get spatialite installed by apt from my distro official repository, so I really don't take care about download page and so on.

It will be the right opportunity to refresh the website:
1. by adding a link to the source repositories advising users where they
    can  find the binary executables for Windows.
2. by adding MD5 checksums for packet verification (which seems to be
    themost useful tip of your entire email).

Perfect, thank you for your time and for the detailed explanation as usual.

Francesco