Fwd: Re: [gdal-dev] FWTools and GDAL 1.7.0

[Jan Hartmann]

Three months ago I put an announcement on the MapServer-Users list about 
a shell script I wrote to compile the whole MapServer-GDAL-PostGIS-PLR 
suite, with and without PHP/Python, in a separate user directory using 
only two commands. Separate installations can coexist in separate 
directory trees and all parameters of all programs can be adapted for 
eacht installation. Apache, PHP, PostGIS and Python are installed for 
each installation separately. The binaries can be transported to 
computers with the same system libraries. Since then,I tried it out on 
dozens of Virtual Machines in a Cloud virtual environment on Suse, 
Fedora and (prefered) Debian virtual machines, and it works for me 
without glitches. It's something like a low-level replacement for 
FWTools (actually, I wrote it when I heard from Frank that FWTools 
wasn't supported at the moment). It's Linux-only, although porting it to 
Windows should be possible with a msys/cygwin shell, even for native 
compiles.

Since then I got no (zero) replies, so I don't know whether it doesn't 
work, isn't interesting, or people just didn't look at it. If it's worth 
your time and answers some of the questions from this discussion, please 
have a look and let me know what you think of it. And that includes 
"doesn't work, not interesting, not adaptable enough, downright stupid". 
Here is the MS-Users posting:

http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/mapserver-users/2010-October/066898.html

Cheers,

Jan

On 01/05/11 23:32, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Wow, what a lot of discussion.
>
> From my perspective, I'm pleased with Tamas' provided binaries as a 
> source
> for developers who want a GDAL SDK for a particular compiler version and
> choice of win32/win64.
>
> I like Jurgen's idea of building a stock GDAL binaries package with an
> installer (similar to FWTools) from OSGeo4W packages.
>
> Like some others, I'm also confused by the "correct" way of providing
> python binaries.  I'm inclined to provide an included python in a self
> installer similar to FWTools, but I'd be pleased if the hardcore
> Pythonistas can get the magic ways of producing python binaries for any
> Python version working.
>
> Is there someone that wants to take on producing official GDAL binaries
> from OSGeo4W with a self installer sort of similar to FWTools, likely
> using the mechanism Jurgen described?  I'm interested, but interest 
> hasn't
> turned into action over quite a few months of interest.
>
> Best regards,
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