[OSGeo-Discuss] OSGeo4W maintenance activities

[Rashad Kanavath]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:29 PM, Margherita Di Leo <diregola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear All,
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:26 PM, 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.
>>
>
> Could this become a potential GSoC idea? hint hint
>

This very well fits the GSoC time frame (3 months). But need a somewhat
cmake faimilarity from the student.

I am willing to mentor this one.


> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Margherita Di Leo
>



-- 
Regards,
   Rashad
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