[Gdal-dev] gdal 1.4.1 python 2.4 windows executables

[Christopher Barker]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> I am interested in making "core binaries" for win32 part of the funded
> GDAL maintainer workload, but it isn't at all clear that this will include
> Python packages.

I sure hope it will.

The easiest thing for Windows users is to have binaries for each 
release, for each recent version of Python (I think the two most recent 
is good enough -- i.e. 2.4 and 2.5). However, barring that, at least is 
should be all set up to build with distutils. That way at least anyone 
with the right compiler can "just build it". Indeed, then they could 
donate the binaries back to the project.

I haven't tried to build it on Windows lately, but it's looking like 
it's not trivial. However, I'm not offering to figure out how to get it 
all to work, so this is just a suggestion!

-Chris

PS: the package structure for py-gdal really should be re-worked too, 
but that's a different topic.





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