OSGeo4W

Introduction
This page discusses a possible OSGeo Binary Distribution and Installer of software for MS Windows (aka Win32). It is a specific case of the OSGeo Binary Distribution which we hope might get going soon.

Goals
General goals:


 * Include a wide variety of OSGeo packages.
 * Painless installation
 * Select desired packages only, and pull in dependencies automatically.

General Plan
Morph MS4W to use a nicer installer front end (instead of just zip files) and to include more packages.

Targetted Packages
In the following context required means we firmly plan to include this item, and that existing participants are committed to it. Optional implies we are interested in including it, but no one is committed to doing it. All packages will be optional to install (pending dependencies).


 * MapServer (required, Jeff)
 * MapServer CGI (required, Jeff)
 * PHP MapScript (required, Jeff)
 * Python MapScript (optional)
 * GDAL (required, Mateusz)
 * Python bindings (optional)
 * Plugin Drivers: ECW, OCI, SDE, MrSID, etc (optional)

Participants

 * Jeff McKenna: MS4W Maintainer
 * Frank Warmerdam: FWTools
 * Mateusz Loskot (maintain GDAL related components)

Technical Notes

 * MS4W Home
 * Paul Ramsey notes that for installation in corporate environments it can be very helpful to provide MSI files, and to support non-interactive distribution.
 * Markus Neteler mentioned that 6.3.0 winGRASS is now in RC1 (download) and also included in QGIS 0.9.0