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<font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Three months ago I put an
announcement on the MapServer-Users list about a shell script I
wrote to compile the whole MapServer-GDAL-PostGIS-PLR suite, with
and without PHP/Python, in a separate user directory using only
two commands. Separate installations can coexist in separate
directory trees and all parameters of all programs can be adapted
for eacht installation. Apache, PHP, PostGIS and Python are
installed for each installation separately. The binaries can be
transported to computers with the same system libraries. Since
then,I tried it out on dozens of Virtual Machines in a Cloud
virtual environment on Suse, Fedora and (prefered) Debian virtual
machines, and it works for me without glitches. It's something
like a low-level replacement for FWTools (actually, I wrote it
when I heard from Frank that FWTools wasn't supported at the
moment). It's Linux-only, although porting it to Windows should be
possible with a msys/cygwin shell, even for native compiles.<br>
<br>
Since then I got no (zero) replies, so I don't know whether it
doesn't work, isn't interesting, or people just didn't look at it.
If it's worth your time and answers some of the questions from
this discussion, please have a look and let me know what you think
of it. And that includes "doesn't work, not interesting, not
adaptable enough, downright stupid". Here is the MS-Users posting:<br>
<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-October/066898.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-October/066898.html</a><br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
<br>
Jan<br>
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On 01/05/11 23:32, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4D24F18A.60700@pobox.com" type="cite">Folks,
<br>
<br>
Wow, what a lot of discussion.
<br>
<br>
From my perspective, I'm pleased with Tamas' provided binaries as
a source
<br>
for developers who want a GDAL SDK for a particular compiler
version and
<br>
choice of win32/win64.
<br>
<br>
I like Jurgen's idea of building a stock GDAL binaries package
with an
<br>
installer (similar to FWTools) from OSGeo4W packages.
<br>
<br>
Like some others, I'm also confused by the "correct" way of
providing
<br>
python binaries. I'm inclined to provide an included python in a
self
<br>
installer similar to FWTools, but I'd be pleased if the hardcore
<br>
Pythonistas can get the magic ways of producing python binaries
for any
<br>
Python version working.
<br>
<br>
Is there someone that wants to take on producing official GDAL
binaries
<br>
from OSGeo4W with a self installer sort of similar to FWTools,
likely
<br>
using the mechanism Jurgen described? I'm interested, but
interest hasn't
<br>
turned into action over quite a few months of interest.
<br>
<br>
Best regards,
<br>
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