[mapguide-internals] 2.1.0 Final Windows Installer

[Trevor Wekel]

Hi Gabriele,

I have updated the release notes with your suggestions on the PostGIS provider and Windows installer.

Most of the third party stack is not available on Windows so we include it in the source tree.  Also, I do not know what side effects would be introduced from using the existing libraries on a Linux distro.  I suspect it could lead to a wide range of compilation issues - header conflicts, etc.

Thank you for the suggestions.  They do help.

Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:mapguide-internals-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Gabriele Monfardini
Sent: November 18, 2009 11:04 AM
To: MapGuide Internals Mail List
Subject: Re: [mapguide-internals] 2.1.0 Final Windows Installer

> 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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