[OSGeo-Discuss] Re: OSGeo4W - Seeking Testers and Contributors

[Joanne Cook]

Hi Frank,

This is very cool, and I will endeavour to give you some feedback on it. Actually, I'm wondering if some collaboration might not be fruitful- I spent a long time tinkering with winGRASS etc for Portable GIS, and it would be cool if a portable version of OSGeo4W could be made...

All the best

Jo

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 00:23:58 -0400
From: Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com>
Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W - Seeking Testers and Contributors
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Folks,

For several months several of us have been working on a standard installer
for a variety of OSGeo4W packages on MS-Windows.  The result of that is
OSGeo4W.

It is an installer that understands package dependency, supports upgrading
individual components in place, and is network based (only downloading the
packages that are needed).

OSGeo4W is loosely intended to supercede efforts like MS4W, and FWTools.

We are seeking windows software users willing to try out OSGeo4W, and provide
feedback.

   http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w

We are also looking for software developers and packagers interested in
helping with packaging.  Currently we have good support for GDAL, MapServer,
uDig.  We have a proof-of-concept WinGRASS package, but it needs love. We
would appreciate packagers for additional packages, including QGIS, OSSIM,
MapGuide, gvSig, and GeoNetwork.

Best regards,
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