OSGeo Binary Distribution
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This is a proposal for a project to develop an OSGeo "branded and certified" binary distribution of open source geospatial software for Windows, Linux and possibly MacOS X and Solaris.
Rationale
Objectives
Offer a painless user experience installing and getting started with OSGeo products.
- Support major operating systems. In order of precidence that likely means Windows, Linux (Intel32), MacOS X and Solaris (Sparc).
- Ensure that all components are inter-compatible avoiding version incompatibility hell.
- Allow progressive installation, with packages pulled over the internet as requested. So the person can install a few packages without having to download everything, and so they can go back and add more packages later.
- Provide an easy to use GUI installer.
- Be relatively distribution/version agnostic - on linux we hope the same binaries will work on Debian, Fedora Core, Suse, Ubuntu, etc. On windows and MacOS X we hope the binaries would work across a variety of relatively recent OS versions.
- Include at least all the OSGeo project software as packages, and dependencies of those packages.
- Suitable for desktop and web service folks.
Who
Funding
- Budget 2006-2007
- EDRC BAA Proposal
- Make this a proper "project" of the foundation so folks can earmark specific sponsorship support to it.