[osgeo4w-dev] Current filesystem tree sucks!

[Mateusz Loskot]

On 11/09/10 21:55, Jürgen E. Fischer wrote:
> I don't quite see how update-alternatives would help.  On Debian it's used to
> switch executables - something gdal16.bat / gdal17.bat does on OSGeo4W (but
> only for the current session).

I used update-alternatives as analogy. The point is to configure
permanently, not only for session.

> Maybe just prepending the appropriate paths to %LIB% and %INCLUDE% (just like
> it's done for %PATH%) from gdal16.bat and gdal17.bat could be enough.

You can not assume user compiles software from within OSGeo4W
environment. This is one of the major points here, IMO, improvements.

Best regards,
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Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org