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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Folks,<br>
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I welcome the discussion and the ensuing new life and growth it
will presumably enable. Thanks to Frank, Jurgen, Paolo & Tamas
for pushing the boulder a little bit further up the slope to get
us here. ;-)<br>
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I'm happy to continue contributing to o4w, in my current role as
occasional wiki gnome and minor packager, and/or as a steering
committee member.<br>
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A shared development server with a known stable environment and
consistent toolchain is cracking good idea.<br>
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I'll raise the idea again that it would be really nice if we could
somehow capture the changes and build recipes for creating
packages in version control, storing the binaries in some kind of
side-car elsewhere. Would it be feasible to have a template
structure on Bitbucket or Github (or...) that could be just cloned
or forked and then merged/pulled into the mainline? <br>
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cheers,<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">matt wilkie
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Yukon Department of Environment
10 Burns Road * Whitehorse, Yukon * Y1A 4Y9
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On 09/04/2013 10:18 PM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:<br>
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issues with OSGeo4W and things that
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Committee as a means to ensure that
decisions can actually get<br>
made with regard to OSGeo4W. I'd be
willing to draft some <br>
preliminary documents in this regard and
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least Jürgen Fischer, Tamas Szekeres, Matt
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initial members. Also perhaps Hirofumi
Hayashi or one of the other<br>
folks who worked on the Japanese support and
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2) I'd like to see us move a central
development server on which <br>
many of the core packages (mostly libraries)
can be rebuilt by any<br>
of the core developers to make it easier to do
upgrades, and to take<br>
care of important packages. Alex Mandel has
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3) I'd like to see us think about 64 windows
support. It might mean<br>
supporting 32bit and 64bit or even leaping as far
as just shipping <br>
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64 bit binaries.<br>
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4) I'd like to see us put a little more process into
place for testing<br>
and perhaps actually assemble periodic releases in a
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without subjecting the world to breakage when someone
(often me)<br>
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I'd appreciate feedback from the community on the above,
and <br>
suggestions of other issues of importance. Most
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I set the clouds in
motion - turn up |
Frank Warmerdam, <a
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light and sound -
activate the windows | <a
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and watch the world go
round - Rush |
Geospatial Software
Developer<br>
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