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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">I'm still thinking this is worth the effort at some point. The easier the process is to make a local datseta available inside of the apps, the (VERY much) more likely, the app will come off in good standing with the testers.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Is this possibly a separate tool that I'm talking about, that could be used after the fact on the LiveDVD? With the sample data all tweaked to similar locations and by adding a Data installer script . . .</font> </p>
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Bob,<br>I'm very wary of anything to do with hot-swapping datasets.<br><br>One of the main pillar stones of OSGeo-Live is quality, which is achieved by systematic testing, re-testing, then testing again, year after year. We now have years and years of testing of applications behind us.<br><br>Hot swapping a base dataset invalidates the testing for all applications which use that dataset, and consequently is highly likely to introduce errors - something we are strong wishing to avoid.<br><br>Yes, I agree that it is really nice to make use of a local dataset, and someone may wish to do so for one specific example for one specific application, which you test yourself. But I strongly urge you not to change a dataset for all applications as you either compromise the quality of OSGeo-Live, or you are up for many man months worth of testing and issue resolution.<br><br>On 15/10/2011 1:14 AM, Bob Basques wrote: </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Related to this thread (I think) . . . .</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">in a future version of the Live DVD, could the installation of apps be setup in a way that allows for swapping out the sample data sets installed across all apps via a single variable or folder storage location in some way. Being able to change the projection would be the next most obvious improvement to something like this as well.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">You still want to have sample data, but being able to swap this out for localized data for training aspects would be a pretty slick option to provide.</font> </p>
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<font size="3" face="Comic Sans MS">Does it make any sense to try and hard applications together based on data, or are the intended app uses to far ranging and require certain types of particular data ?</font> </p>
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