Difference between revisions of "OSGeo4W"

Revision as of 10:09, 2 November 2007

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)
- MapServer CGI (required)
- PHP MapScript (required)
- Python MapScript (optional)
GDAL (required)
- 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 WinGRASS is now in RC1.

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 == Targetted Packages ==
-In the following context ''required'' means we firmly plan to include this item, and that existing participants are committed to it.  All packages will be optional to install (pending dependencies).
+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)