Difference between revisions of "OSGeo4W"

Introduction

This page discusses the OSGeo Binary Distribution and Installer of software for MS Windows (aka Win32). It is a specific case of the OSGeo Binary Distribution.

Name of Installer

OSGeo4W

Mailing List

osgeo4w-dev@lists.osgeo.org (Subscribe, Archive)

Goals

General goals:

Include a wide variety of OSGeo packages.
Painless installation (exe/msi installer)
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 committed means we are planning to include this item, and have someone willing to do the work. desired implies we are interested in including it, but no one is committed to doing it.

MapServer (committed, Jeff)
- MapServer CGI (committed, Jeff)
- PHP MapScript (committed, Jeff)
- Python MapScript (desired)
GDAL (committed, Mateusz)
- Python bindings (desired)
- Plugin Drivers: ECW, OCI, SDE, MrSID, etc (desired)
PostGIS/Postgres (desired) (Mark Cave-Ayland?)
pgAdminIII/phppgadmin (desired)
Mapbender (desired)
Mapbuilder (desired)
OpenLayers (desired)
GRASS (desired) (Moritz Lennert?) - depends on TclTk?
Qt (desired) (for OSSIM, and QGIS)
QuantumGIS (desired) - depends on Qt.
OSSIM (desired) - depends on Qt.
R (desired)
FDO (desired)
MapGuide Open Source (desired) - depends on FDO

Participants

(interested package maintainers please add your name below!)

Jeff McKenna: MS4W Maintainer
Frank Warmerdam: FWTools
Mateusz Loskot: maintain GDAL related components
Yewondwossen Assefa: MapServer core

List of Hopefully-Interested Maintainers

Arnulf Christl (Mapbender)
Cameron Shorter (MapBuilder)
Chris Holmes (GeoServer, GeoTools)
Chris Schmidt (OpenLayers)
Howard Butler (MapServer buildkit)
Jeroen Ticheler (GeoNetwork)
Jody Garnett (uDig)
Mark Cave-Ayland (PostGIS)
Mark Lucas (OSSIM)
Moritz Lennert (winGRASS)
Paul Ramsey (PostGIS)
Robert Bray (MapGuide Open Source))
Tim Sutton (QGIS)
gvSIG ?
FDO ?
...

Upcoming Work Priorities

look into packaging (download packages directly from server...)
mailing list setup (done)
put initial structure into OSGeo SVN
look into sponsors from organizations

Timelime

base structure intact by April 2008

Long-Term Plan

select a Project Steering Committee
enter incubation as an OSGeo project

Licensing

are there any licensing issues with the proposed packages?

Technical Notes

existing MS4W NSIS installer script
existing PostGIS NSIS installer script
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

Installer Creation Software

several projects use NSIS (Quantum GIS, PostGIS, FWTools, MS4W, ...)
would make sense to use what we know (NSIS) and share

Build Environment

MSVC 7.1 currently used (by MapServer buildkit, FWTools)
possibly time to upgrade buildkit to 2005 (since a free version available, "Express")
what about MSYS support?
have a Windows VM on telascience ??
also should segment from massive buildkit
include build library files (header files, similar to how FWTools does currently)
- offer as developer components??

Upgrades

will force a new download of the installer

Custom Scripting in Installer

PHP can be used for custom scripting

Versions

must pick our supported version of PHP, Python, etc. to use throughout installer buildkit

Package Requirements Details

MS4W

Apache
- install into any directory
- allow user to specify port to use
MapServer
- SDE, Oracle plugins
- Mapscript: PHP, Java, Python, C#
- AGG
All existing MS4W packages and utilities:
- Utilities:
  - avce00
  - dem tools
  - shapelib
  - shp2tile
  - shpdiff
- Packages (user can optionally include these):
  - ArcIMS Emulator
  - Chameleon
  - dBox MapServer
  - FIST
  - GeoMOOSE
  - ka-Map
  - Mapbender
  - MapServer Itasca Demo Application
  - MapServer OGC Web Services Workshop
  - OpenLayers
  - PHP/Mapscript Sample Application
  - phpPgAdmin
  - p.mapper
Miscellaneous
- automatically upgrade/install packages directly from the maptools.org server

Note: Microsoft IIS web server requirement might be handled with a community wiki

WINGRASS

ActiveState Tcl
MSYS (commandline-ready)

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 == Targetted Packages ==
-In the following context ''required'' means we hope to include this item.  ''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).
+In the following context ''committed'' means we are planning to include this item, and have someone willing to do the work.  ''desired'' implies we are interested in including it, but no one is committed to doing it.
-* MapServer (required, Jeff)
+* MapServer (committed, Jeff)
-** MapServer CGI (required, Jeff)
+** MapServer CGI (committed, Jeff)
-** PHP MapScript (required, Jeff)
+** PHP MapScript (committed, Jeff)
-** Python MapScript (optional)
+** Python MapScript (desired)
-* GDAL (required, Mateusz)
+* GDAL (committed, Mateusz)
-** Python bindings (optional)
+** Python bindings (desired)
-** Plugin Drivers: ECW, OCI, SDE, MrSID, etc (optional)
+** Plugin Drivers: ECW, OCI, SDE, MrSID, etc (desired)
-* PostGIS/Postgres (required) (Mark Cave-Ayland?)
+* PostGIS/Postgres (desired) (Mark Cave-Ayland?)
-* pgAdminIII/phppgadmin
+* pgAdminIII/phppgadmin (desired)
-* Mapbender (optional)
+* Mapbender (desired)
-* Mapbuilder (optonal)
+* Mapbuilder (desired)
-* OpenLayers?
+* OpenLayers (desired)
-* GRASS (required) (Moritz Lennert?)
+* GRASS (desired) (Moritz Lennert?) - depends on TclTk?
-* QuantumGIS (required)
+* Qt (desired) (for OSSIM, and QGIS)
-* R (optional)
+* QuantumGIS (desired) - depends on Qt.
+* OSSIM (desired) - depends on Qt.
+* R (desired)
+* FDO (desired)
+* MapGuide Open Source (desired) - depends on FDO
 == Participants ==