[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

[Landon Blake]

I'm a MS Windows User at work. I'm not a C programmer, but I know enough to
compile some code. I can help with compiling and testing on Windows 64 Bit.

Landon

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 8:26 AM, Rashad Kanavath <mohammedrashadkm at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello Anita,
>
> I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages can be added or
> updated based on different compilers and version.
>
> Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance
> ossim.  This was discussed in
> https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/473#comment:7
>
> IMHO, it should become a package management tool for Windows rather than a
> package installer.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Anita Graser <anitagraser at gmx.at> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> OSGeo4W is a great project which brings together software from lots of
>> our projects and many users rely on it.
>>
>> The volunteer team around OSGeo4W is not that big and I wonder how
>> sustainable this is in the long run. From what I know, there are quite a
>> lot of - mostly maintenance - issues on the todo list, which have been
>> sitting there for months.
>>
>> I'd like to encourage the OSGeo4W team to let us know how OSGeo can help
>> ensure that this important project for many users is run in a sustainable
>> manner.
>>
>> Best wishes,
>> Anita
>>
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>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>    Rashad
>
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