<div dir="ltr">Hello Anita,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I think osgeo4w needs a better structuring of how packages can be added or updated based on different compilers and version.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Currently, due to ABI incompatibility upgrades are stuck. For instance ossim. This was discussed in <a href="https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/473#comment:7" target="_blank">https://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/473#comment:7</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">IMHO, it should become a package management tool for Windows rather than a package installer.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 9:30 PM, Anita Graser <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anitagraser@gmx.at" target="_blank">anitagraser@gmx.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">OSGeo4W is a great project which brings together software from lots of our projects and many users rely on it. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">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. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">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. </div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small">Best wishes,</div><div style="font-size:small">Anita</div></div>
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