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<p>Jachym,<br>
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I have to echo what Michael is saying about the Windows installer. In a government enterprise environment, I doubt the present osgeo installation format would be accepted. A stand-alone msi package would be better. <br>
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Another question with the osgeo installer, would the installation of the support libraries/utilites ( python, gdal, etc.) conflict with an existing installation of ArcGIS and it's libraries? I'm trying to get folks who already use ArcGIS to try doing some things in GRASS.<br>
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The combination of an unfamiliar installation package and conflicts with their existing software would increase the resistance to initial use.<br>
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Doug<br>
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On Mar 26, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:<br>
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> hi, just small note:<br>
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> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:21:55PM -0700, Michael Barton wrote:<br>
>> Marco Pasetti made a very nice Windows installer for 6.3 last year, <br>
>> but<br>
>> is unable to continue this work.<br>
>><br>
>> Other folks in OSGEO have created OSGEO4W with a number of packages.<br>
>> However, GRASS is in the 'advanced' section--and it is not clear what<br>
>> libraries need to be downloaded with it--and it cannot be installed<br>
>> stand-alone.<br>
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> the osgeo4w installer is just fine, only thing is missing is, that <br>
> GRASS<br>
> should appear in the 'basic' section as well (should not be that<br>
> complicated) and all depandances are fixed. than the installation is <br>
> IMHO enough straight forward and easy.<br>
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> jachym<br>
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Jachym,<br>
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The osgeo4w installer does not work well with Vista. The binary seems <br>
to have been compiled for XP and so various modules fail when GRASS <br>
installed is installed in this way on Vista. There needs to be a Vista <br>
version of the installer<br>
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Also, while the osteo4w installer is nice for individual installs, it <br>
is problematic for institutional lab installs, where IT managers want <br>
to have stand alone apps that they can test, install, and remove <br>
rather than a suite of apps in a package installer format. It's the <br>
same problem I've face with the Cygwin version when trying to use <br>
GRASS in university classroom labs. It would help to have the option <br>
to install a package as stand alone.<br>
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Michael<br>
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