<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/5 Jason Roberts <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jason.roberts@duke.edu">jason.roberts@duke.edu</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><br><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Right now, to install the latest GDAL for Python on Windows, the user has to download a zip file from <a href="http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/" target="_blank">http://vbkto.dyndns.org/sdk/</a>, drill in to find the Python files, copy them to C:\PythonXX\Lib\site-packages, drill into find the GDAL binaries and related files, copy them to a directory such as C:\GDAL, set the PATH and GDAL environment variables, and so on. And there are no obvious instructions anywhere about how to do this. Python programmers are programmers after all, so they can generally figure that out and accomplish it. But it is not what they are used to doing if they are a Windows programmer. This is why Chris basically says that he has to remember / relearn how to do it every time he upgrades GDAL.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">It would be really helpful to Windows Python programmers who want to use GDAL—probably a large number of potential GDAL users—for the GDAL team to offer installation via one or both of the mechanisms I mentioned above.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br><br>Jason,<br><br>Maybe this is due to my lack of knowledge in Python, but why is it a requirement to place the files to such specific locations to run a python app with gdal on Windows? As far as I remember setting up the following environment variables properly (in a command prompt) does the right thing from arbitrary locations (at least when running the autotest suite for GDAL):<br>
<br>PROJ_LIB<br>GDAL_DRIVER_PATH<br>GDAL_DATA<br>PYTHONPATH<br>PATH<br><br>Certainly one should find out the location of the python.exe which might also be included in PATH for convenience.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Tamas<br>
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