[osgeo4w-dev] Current filesystem tree sucks!

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

 >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,

maybe related "WinGrass: compiling against osgeo4w's gdal17 fails" ?
(https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1160)

best regards
Helmut