[Osgeo4w-trac] Re: [osgeo4w] #169: o-help doesn't catch gdal16 or gdal17 commands

[OSGeo4W]

#169: o-help doesn't catch gdal16 or gdal17 commands
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Reporter:  maphew            |        Owner:  maphew       
    Type:  enhancement       |       Status:  closed       
Priority:  major             |    Component:  Documentation
 Version:                    |   Resolution:  wontfix      
Keywords:  pkg-shell o-help  |  
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Changes (by maphew):

  * status:  assigned => closed
  * resolution:  => wontfix


Old description:

> o-help.bat from [[pkg-shell]] is unaware of the gdal16 or gdal17
> packages, or any other package under ./apps which might add directories
> to path. Consequently o-help is not as helpful as it could be.
>
> It would be relatively straight forward to add IF..EXIST tests for
> apps/gdal16. Perhaps a more generalised algorithm could be devised to
> automatically search anything in %path% under %osgeo4w_root% without too
> much work?

New description:

 o-help.bat from [wiki:pkg-shell] is unaware of the gdal16 or gdal17
 packages, or any other package under ./apps which might add directories to
 path. Consequently o-help is not as helpful as it could be.

 It would be relatively straight forward to add IF..EXIST tests for
 apps/gdal16. Perhaps a more generalized algorithm could be devised to
 automatically search anything in %path% under %osgeo4w_root% without too
 much work?

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Comment:

 I've decided this isn't worth pursuing. I've not thought of a way of
 reliably chasing down which other o4w dirs in path are worth tripping
 through and listing commands of. Calling o-help is slow enough as it is
 already on initial load without adding more dirs to process. Also the
 gdal-XX-version are not mainstream anyway.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/ticket/169#comment:3>
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