[osgeo4w-dev] offline install

[Jürgen E. Fischer]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, 27. Feb 2014 at 09:55:17 -0500, Steve.Toutant at inspq.qc.ca wrote:
> I have a 64bits Windows OS, will osgeo4w 32bits setup and packages will 
> work well? 

Yes.


> If so why there is a 64bits setup if it is incomplete and 32bits can be used?

That's why it took so long to have a 64bit build - there isn't a pressing need
to have 64bit builds if 32bit binaries also work.

But 64bit binaries are preferable on 64bit machines and it contains QGIS and
all of it's dependencies, which already are a major part of osgeo4w 32bit
(GDAL, GEOS, GRASS, proj.4...).


Jürgen


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