[GRASS-dev] call for volunteers - urgent need for Windows Vista binaries

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Moritz,

I'm glad to see that this is possible at least, though it is by no  
means obvious. I will try to find a place to archive this information  
as I will be again doing a lab course later this spring. The fact that  
critical information for creating a stand-alone package is buried in a  
blog is problematic--though I know that all are very pressed for time.  
What happens is you want to do 2 separate stand alone packages? Do the  
libraries conflict? I'm just not well enough versed (i.e., ignorant)  
in Windows, and especially Vista, to know about this.

Michael


On Mar 27, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Moritz Lennert wrote:

> On 27/03/09 07:18, Michael Barton wrote:
>> Also, while the osteo4w installer is nice for individual installs,  
>> it is problematic for institutional lab installs, where IT managers  
>> want to have stand alone apps that they can test, install, and  
>> remove rather than a suite of apps in a package installer format.  
>> It's the same problem I've face with the Cygwin version when trying  
>> to use GRASS in university classroom labs. It would help to have  
>> the option to install a package as stand alone.
>
> Creating such standalone packages should not be too hard using  
> osgeo4w as a starting point. See
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/FAQ#HowdoIperformanofflineorcomputerlabinstall
> ("How do I perform an offline or computer lab install?")
>
> and the blog referenced there:
> http://blog.qgis.org/node/124
>
> Moritz