[osgeo4w-dev] LiveDVD, Portable GIS, osgeo4w

[Matt Wilkie]

whups, ignore what I said. The as-shipped osgeo4w.bat is already portable!


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Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Osgeo4w is portable pretty much as is, at least the command line 
> utilities like gdal_translate and ogr2ogr are. I don't use openev, 
> mapserver, udig, etc. very often so I don't know if they are.
> 
> - Move .\OSGeo4W\bin\o4w_env.bat to .\OSGeo4W\
> - Edit o4w.bat and change set osgeo4w_root like so:
>     set OSGEO4W_ROOT=%~dp0%
> - Run o4w_env.bat
> 
> All done. :)
> 
> 
> matt wilkie
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> 
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>> Jo,
>> Great to hear your interest in aligning the LiveDVD and Portable GIS 
>> projects,
>>
>> I'd like to hear you thoughts about including Portable GIS on the 
>> LiveDVD.
>> The LiveDVD is starting to be handed out at OSGeo stands at 
>> conferences, and it would be good to have windows software on it too. 
>> (We currently have included some windows installers on the LiveDVD 
>> already).
>>
>> Jo and osgeo4w,
>> I'm also interested to hear whether osgeo4w is currently used to build 
>> Portable GIS. If not, should it?
>>
>> Archaeogeek Admin wrote:
>>> Hi Cameron,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your comment on archaeogeek- I would love to get involved 
>>> with the OSGeo marketing focus, and with the live dvd- if I can find 
>>> the time! I will stop by the wiki pages and subscribe to the lists 
>>> though.
>>>
>>> Portable GIS- it would be cool to see the two projects aligned- mine 
>>> is entirely windows based at the moment (and due for an upgrade I 
>>> think), but I would be happy to see it used at conferences so yeah, 
>>> I'll be in touch!
>>>
>>> All the best
>>>
>>> Jo
>>>
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