[mapguide-internals] Re: Getting closer with 64 bit installer

[Zac Spitzer]

I'm not much of a C++ developer, but looking at the example trevor pointed out

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/browser/trunk/MgDev/Common/CoordinateSystem/CoordSysCatalog.cpp#L183

we install CS-MAP to

C:\Program Files (x86)\OSGeo\MapGuide\CS-Map

rather than "\\Autodesk\\Geospatial Coordinate Systems"

isn't that the problem?



On 6 July 2010 17:19, Jason Birch <jason at jasonbirch.com> wrote:
> The installer conditionals are already really complicated, and I worry that
> adding more special cases will increase our risk and the complexity of
> troubleshooting user installs.
>
> I do agree that requiring a reboot is silly, but I also don't really see it
> as a huge problem.  For development platforms, rebooting isn't a big deal,
> and for production platforms the extra time for a reboot isn't much of an
> issue considering that you're likely doing this no more than twice a year,
> and have already scheduled downtime for cold backup, uninstall, re-install.
>  Yes, it's not compliant with Windows best practices, and it's ugly, but the
> cost to the end user is relatively low.
>
> What I would like to see is an increased isolation from system / registry
> settings with the following:
>
> - MapGuide server and web tier pulling CS-Map path from an ini file setting
> (no need for env var setting or reboot)
> - PHP running as FastCGI, picking up its INI settings from installation
> directory (no more need for PHP registry key)
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have money to put where my mouth is, and both are too
> much work to get into 2.2 even if I did.
>
> Regardless, this isn't really a sticking point for me, I just think the
> costs of removing the reboot requirement from this one configuration (I'm
> still surprised it isn't more widespread) are not worth the benefit.
>
> Jason
>
> On 5 July 2010 23:15, Jackie Ng wrote:
>
>>
>> Mind you, this only affects one configuration (Windows, 64-bit, IIS) out of
>> the many possible different install configurations you could have in
>> MapGuide.
>>
>> This is 2010, we shouldn't have to reboot for petty things like this.
>>
>>
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