[osgeo4w-dev] Progress Update

[andrea antonello]

Were are applications supposed to live, that are completely contained
inside a folder and are not flexible enough to be split into bin, lib
and share etc? Udig is an executable inside a folder containing all
the needed libs and referring to those through the internal relative
path. I will investigate the possibility to split, but were to put it
if it has to be like that? Perhaps a /opt would be the most linux-like
choice? Are there other softwares having the same porblem?

Thanks,
Andrea



On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Frank Warmerdam <warmerdam at pobox.com> wrote:
> andrea antonello wrote:
>  > Through a quick search I couldn't find the cygwin installer engine and
>  > docs about how to package software through it. Could someone kindly
>  > provide me with a link?
>
>  Andrea,
>
>  http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/OSGeo4W_Packaging
>
>  I'll try and make this more prominent on the OSGeo4W page.  Currently
>  it is buried pretty deep.
>
>
>  > PS: together with the udig community we will try to package uDig.
>
>  Sweet!  I'm interested in how the Java runtime environment will be
>  handled.  Will you try to use the system Java?  Or provide your own
>  that just sits in the OSGeo4W tree?  Will you try and install the
>  OSGeo4W Java in such a way that it becomes available as the system
>  Java environment?
>
>  I'd be pleased to lend a hand and answer questions where I can.  I'm
>  also interested in getting Java MapScript and GDAL/OGR Java bindings
>  working once you have the basic Java runtime rules worked out.
>
>
>
>  Best regards,
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