[mapguide-internals] Re: 2.1.0 Final Windows Installer

[Jason Birch]

Thanks for the feedback.

One of our problems as a project is that we aren't all that
approachable as a linux app. I don't know how to change that with our
current developer concentration, and we can only get more linux devs
by making the app more approachable.

The cmake build process (along with decoupling from specific library
versions) appears to be helping with this for FDO. I hope that we can
still make this happen for MapGuide somehow.

Jason

On 2009-11-18, Gabriele Monfardini <gabrimonfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now, the address is only available on the Trac site (linked from the
>> main page):
>
> It is clearly very difficult to find in the homepage.
>
>> Have to say, I feel more and more like the Drupal site is a duplication of
>> effort and a bit of a pain...
>
> mapguide.osgeo.it is clearly the more visible site about mapguide (the
> first one you find using a search engine) and not always appears to be
> up-to-date in all its parts. Just to report my impressions.
>
> I have also some other (humble) suggestions.
>
> Since MapGuide Open Source is not targeted only to Windows, is it
> possible to modify the release notes in order to remove Windows-only
> elements where unneeded and state clearly when they are really
> Windows-only?
> Examples:
>
> "Some RDBMS FDO providers may not work out of the box without the
> proper libraries installed. For example:
>     * PostGIS provider requires libpq.dll"
> may become
> "Some RDBMS FDO providers may not work out of the box without the
> proper libraries installed. For example:
>     * PostGIS provider requires libpq shared library (libpq.dll under
> Windows, libpg.so under Red Hat or other GNU/Linuxes"
>
> "Disk Space
> The installer requires at least 1.5GB of disk space on C: during
> installation. Otherwise installation may not proceed. "
> may become
> "Windows installer
> The installer requires at least 1.5GB of disk space on C: during
> installation. Otherwise installation may not proceed. "
>
> Another suggestion.
> SVN checkout is quite slow, and MgDev is quite big.
> I've seen here
> http://svn.osgeo.org/mapguide/trunk/MgDev/BuildTools/WebTools/7-Zip/
> that 7-Zip binaries (only for Windows and version 4.42, when current
> one is 4.65) are included in SVN.
>
> I don't think it is a good idea to track 7-Zip or any other external
> software binaries (moreover for just one of the supported platform...)
> Why don't add a link to http://www.7-zip.org/download.html in the
> README and get rid of those files?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gabriele
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