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<div><span>Note udig desktop app was cut in the last round; and I would not mind having it back in the mix :-)</span></div><div><br></div><div>I think we may need to make the hard choice of just listing a web page linking to the downloads for mac and osx users...</div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>At the very least having a web page would be nice for those who have been cut.</span></div><div><span><br>-- <br>Jody Garnett<br><br></span>
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<p style="color: #a0a0a0;">On Friday, 8 April 2011 at 9:03 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div>On 04/07/2011 03:37 PM, Hamish wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Cameron <br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Consequently, when we start planning for the next OSGeo-Live<br>release, I think we are going to revisit our options for space<br>saving. At this point, I think it is likely that we will need to<br>remove Windows and Mac installers from the standard ISO.<br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><br>So there's a more general issue, the mini iso has pretty much reached<br>it's limit. If we want it to fit on a 4GB usb stick we can't put much<br>more than another 200-300mb post compression (300-500 in the live mode).<br>Once that's set there will always be some leftover space between the<br>size of the mini and the 4.4 GB limit of a DVD. If we don't fill it with<br>installers, what else would we put there?<br><br>On this last run, at the last minute to make it burnable I made the<br>decision to basically cut anything that wasn't a Desktop application.<br>The reasoning, if you're going to be testing a web app, you probably<br>have a server, and if you have a sever you probably have a decent<br>internet connection (Yes I'm aware there are exceptions to this rule).<br>Desktop applications however can be run and used almost in their<br>entirety without ever needing the web, and hence those installers on<br>disk being taken to remote parts of the world could run on whatever<br>computer is there and require no internet to get started. So for version<br>5 I'm proposing a continuation of only desktop app installers on the ISO.<br><br>That said, I'm open to other ways to decide what to put on the disc and<br>I think that keeping an online page that links you to downloads of<br>everything available or caching the installers (all of them) with 2x a<br>year updates is a good idea.<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>what new projects were you considering adding? I think we may<br>start to see a leveling of the new [large] project curve. who's<br>left to still collect? :)<br><br>Opticks is one project that comes to mind as a possible invitee.<br></div></blockquote>Yes since there are applying for Incubation.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>We may move the installers to an OSGeo Server directory, and<br>point people at this directory.<br></div></blockquote><br>fwiw sync'ing that twice a year shouldn't be too much of a<br>burden, but keeping it always up to date is too much of a<br>maintenance time sink. A project-maintainable page on the wiki<br>for their contact info would be good too.<br>Beware your responsibility to also offer source for download<br>under the (L)GPL. pointing to the upstream's download-source page<br>is not enough*. (that goes for the disc too I guess, but it feels<br>more acute with a .dmg/.exe installer repository)<br><br>[*] as it might go away, such as when the makers of .ecw were<br>gobbled up by a larger megacorp who were not interested in keeping<br>the code under a Free license.<br> <br><br>best,<br>Hamish<br></div></blockquote><br>Thanks,<br>Alex<br>_______________________________________________<br>Live-demo mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org">Live-demo@lists.osgeo.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo">http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo</a><br><a href="http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc">http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc</a><br></div></div></span>
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