[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGEO4W future

[Alex Mandel]

On 09/20/2013 02:45 PM, Tamas Szekeres wrote:
> 2013/9/20 Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it>
> 
>> I suggest to make a Steering Committee
>> for OSGEO4W, so to have a clear roadmap, and give Windows (urgh!)
>> users a predictable environment. I think some of our million users
>> would be happy to support this effort, if they would know they
>> contribute actively to something they need.
>>
> 
> 
> Hi Paolo,
> 
> I agree with you entrirely, as we've already been talking about this today.
> Being committed to provide usable binaries on Windows, you can count me in.
> Setting up a build environment (probably a version of a Windows Server x64
> edition with MSVC2010 for instance) providing to compile all the stuff at
> the same place would be a prerequisite.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Tamas
> 

I'm actually already providing such an instance and was planning to
clone it to several instances as well as a testing instance.
Frank has the keys to drive it and has been using it for several months
already.

It's part of my lab's participation in the ICA-OSGeo initiative.
http://geospatial.ucdavis.edu/resources/open-source

Thanks,
Alex