[osgeo4w-dev] osgeo4w portability

[Alex Mandel]

On 02/05/2015 02:39 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> A discussion started off-list about a portable Osgeo4W (here
> <https://github.com/maphew/apt/issues/10#issuecomment-73048724>).
> 
> Jurgen observed that *"most of the batch files are "portable", but we also
> have configuration file templates* that are modified in postinstall using
> textreplace. That's essentially why it exists. *
> 
> *BTW another problem with portability are the msvcrt packages - that need
> to be installed." *[ *c.f. the batch shell template
> <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/PackagingInstructions#Applicationbatchfiletemplate>
> ]
> I've used o4w portably for a long time by simply copying C:\Osgeo4W tree to
> a usb stick and I've not run into problems, but I mostly use just the gdal
> command line utils. I thought it would be good to collect and/or itemize
> the particular packages or configurations that break portability. We could
> then look and see if it's unavoidable or there might be some reasonably
> inexpensive way of changing that.
> 
> This this thread; what doesn't work portably right now?
> 
> Matt
> 

You should talk to J. Cook this is extremely similar to
http://www.archaeogeek.com/blog/2014/01/20/portable-gis-v4/

Thanks,
Alex