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<span style="white-space: pre;">> My approach is that we should
create a parallel branch of osgeo4w for<br>
> the 64 bit versions, call it beta or whatever while we work
on <br>
> getting everything added and make it so people can install
both 32 <br>
> and 64 on the same computer without issue.</span><br>
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Speaking specifically to parallel installs, excepting desktop
shortcuts and menu items that should be no problem as Osgeo4w --
meaning the shell, gdal/ogr and other command line utilities -- is
pretty much portable as is. Applications within the system are a
mixed bag, with some portable and others not (and I don't know which
are which).<br>
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The menus and shortcut items can be solved with a simple name
change, e.g. "Osgeo4w 64bit shell".<br>
<br>
On the packaging and download mirror side of things, it would be
nice if the 64bit packages were in a single tree rather than
"foobaz_x64.tar.bz2" intermingled with regular packages throughout.
The simple way to do this is just create a new tree off the root,
with it's own setup.ini, the same way we did for 'testing':<br>
<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/release<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/testing<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/x64<br>
<br>
However this is just a silo, and we lose the ability to share
packages. I don't know if this is an actual issue. If every single
application needs to be recompiled and packaged, there's no issue,
but if a duplicated tree means repacking (a significant number of)
things then we might be better served with a single shared tree and
distinct .ini's.<br>
<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/release<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/release/x64<br>
<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/release/setup.ini<br>
/osgeo/download/osgeo4w/release/setup_x64.ini<br>
<br>
I favour the second approach, but my role here is pretty small. :)<br>
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matt wilkie<br>
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