[gdal-dev] GDAL windows installers available

[Tamas Szekeres]

2011/1/10 Jason Roberts <jason.roberts at duke.edu>

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> Nice job getting something out so quickly. You remind me of this Dilbert
> cartoon<http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/000000/10000/8000/400/18402/18402.strip.zoom.gif>from back in the day.
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:-)


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> Due to various deadlines I won’t be able to look at this until Wednesday
> but hope to get you some comments by that time. We should probably follow
> through on Frank’s request for an RFC, so the design can be reviewed and
> approved according to the normal procedure.
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No problem, I will only be able to implement any modifications by the end of
this week, probably. This is something to be let alone for a while before
outlining the best solution to be written. I'm also thinking about how this
approach could provide the same installers from the osgeo4w bundle by using
the same wix configuration file. The windows makefile in GDAL could also be
extended with the targets of creating the installer as part of the GDAL
build process.


> I do have one request/requirement: unattended install. It would be really
> great if I could include eventually include or dynamically download a copy
> of the GDAL msi in my own software, and then invoke msiexec to install it
> automatically. Can you make sure this is possible with your msi package?
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Good idea, I will also include a shortcut to perform update directly from
web in passive mode. It would be a convenient way to keep the installation
up to date with the frequent changes provided by the buildsystem. It would
however be reasonable to get some file hosting capabilities at some other
servers to be able to provide the number of downloads are happening this
way.


> BTW, when we get to the Python bindings installer, this is another reason
> to build the Python bindings installer as a .msi rather than a .exe. That is
> possible with Python 2.5 and later.
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I didn't find this option working with my Python installation (2.5 and 2.6),
is that something which have been added in a recent point release?

Best regards,

Tamas
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