Re: [DebianGIS] Should osgeo4w be included in the FOSS4G2008 live CD?
> > Cameron Shorter wrote:
> >> If we have space on the LiveCD, should we include osgeo4w on it?
Hamish:
> > It would be great to include a software/ directory on the DVD with
> > both MS-Windows and MacOSX folders containing binary installers for
> > all the favourite FOSS4G apps, FWTools etc. and whatever support
> > software is needed.
> >
> > e.g. William Kyngesburye's Geo-Frameworks+Apps for Mac:
> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:frameworks
> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/wiki/software:index
Cameron wrote:
> 1. Is the software linked below stable and production ready now, with
> no testing required?
Yes.
(cc to William & Marco for their thoughts)
> 2. How much space does it take up? (I'm not sure how much space we have
> left on the image. One of the techies might be able to answer this)
(William/Marco?)
grass win32 native ver6.3.0- 44MB
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/native/
("experimental", but we are highly conservative in our rating)
qgis win32 native ver0.11.0-2 - 74MB
http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/win32/
FWtools win32 ver2.2.6 - smallish (<30MB?)
http://fwtools.maptools.org/
> 3. Are you prepared to add the packages yourself,
No idea how to do that, but I'd be happy to as long as I am not required
to download 1.5gb .. my internet connection down here strongly resembles
a wet piece of string.
> and write any readme.html files or similar before Friday?
easy.
> If so, then we might be able to get it on the disk. But as I don't have
> experience with these tools I'd be hesitant to include them (because of
> our short timeline) without hearing a strong chorus of support from
> existing packaging techies.
I would have no hesitation in including FWTools, native GRASS and QGIS
packages for MS-Windows by Marco, and William's packages for the Mac. I
think it would be a crying shame for them not to be there actually.
Again, I am asking for nothing more that a directory on it like
/installers/windows/*.exe
/installers/macosx/*.dmg
/installers/readme.html
To be honest I don't spend much time on the Mac and even less with MS
but I have been in the direct line of fire for feedback for a long time,
and the recent feedback has been very good.
Hamish
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