[Live-demo] Someone said I should start posting things here about USB based service building . . .

[Cameron Shorter]

Hi  Bob,
That sounds really interesting, and would complement the linux based 
packaging that we have been doing the the arramagong Live DVD and 
Virtual Machine project.

In particular, we have a build process where any project which can write 
a shell install script for an Ubuntu environment will be included on the 
Live DVD.

It would now be quite easy to extend that to include a boot from USB 
release as well. (You might want to write this).

However, I understand you are targeting windows, and I think that is a 
great idea. I suggest building upon the osgeo4w project which is 
building projects for windows. Frank Warnerdam can probably point you in 
the right direction to get started.

Bob Basques wrote:
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> All,
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> I've been experimenting the last couple of weeks with building out a 
> standalone mapping service running from USB.   Things are kind of 
> gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far.  I did try other 
> combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with 
> the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache 
> Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from 
> PortableApps.
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> I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do.   I was 
> really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since 
> it would make portability across OS's much nicer.  I may go back and 
> hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make 
> that work.  The one click option seems like it might be nicer this 
> way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB. 
>  Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I 
> could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.
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> So, where am I at now.  PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option 
> for Windows which is what I started working on.  I intend to attack 
> MAC and Linux as well.  The end result is to have a standalone mapping 
> service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB 
> and/or a one click startup, that may, at some future date, also update 
> itself from some master services yet to be named.  :c)
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> bobb
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