Fw: Re: [Live-demo] Mac Installers

[Hamish]

fyi,

this is a little out of date now, William has been making steady
progress with the Snow Leopard binaries..



--- On Sun, 9/6/09, William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos com> wrote:

> From: William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos com>
> Subject: Re: [Live-demo] MapTiler for FOSS4G 2009
> To: "Hamish"
> Cc: klokan at gmail com, "Frank Warmerdam"
> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 5:18 AM
>
> I just saw the LiveDVD announcement
> on the OSGeo list, with the timeline, and checked out the
> wiki pages.  Looks like I came in on this a bit late.
> 
> As I said previously, the current stack works with only a
> couple problems, the main one being that the GRASS wx GUI
> won't run.
> 
> Here is an outline of how the packages could be
> organized.  The dmg's shouldn't be put on the disk
> (extra steps to mount the disk images), instead put the
> installers directly on the DVD.  The files should
> survive the ISO9660 format that, I'm guessing, will be
> used.
> 
> Use some renaming with numbers to help direct the install
> order:
> 
> 0 ReadMe.rtf [something I can write up to tie it together, mention other online packages like R]
> 1 Base Packages (Frameworks) [68.9 MiB]
>     0 ReadMes & Licenses
>         [each framework readme renamed as '{fwname} Framework ReadMe.rtf']
>         [licenses renamed similarly]
>     1 UnixImageIO Framework.mpkg
>     2 PROJ Framework.mpkg
>     3 GEOS Framework.mpkg
>     4 SQLite3 Framework.mpkg
>     5 FreeType Framework.mpkg
>     6 FFTW3 Framework.mpkg
>     7 GDAL Framework.mpkg
>     8 rgdal-0.6.12-1.zip
> 2 Support Packages [76 MiB]
>     PHP 5 [complete dmg contents]
>     PostgeSQL [complete dmg contents]
> 3 End-User Packages [or some such title] [129.7MiB]
>     GRASS 6.4 (Leopard) [complete dmg contents]
>     MapServer 5 [complete dmg contents]
>     pgRouting [complete dmg contents]
>     PostGIS [complete dmg contents]
>     Qgis-1.0.2-3-Leopard.dmg [because it's
> drag-n-drop, to make sure app package not damaged]
> 
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Hamish wrote:
> 
> > IMO 200mb is good value per megabyte. I wouldn't be concerned
> > with 10.4, it is the past. It would be no good to ship 200+200
> > for 10.5 and 10.6, but AFAIK William's 10.6 packages, if
> > existing yet, will still be experimental for a little while.
> > 
> > I expect by the time the conference rolls around most 10.5ers
> > will have upgraded Snow Leopard (it's just $30 after all) so
> > we are faced with shipping outdated and thus unusable 10.5
> > packages due to press deadlines. Bad timing Apple... :)
> > 
> > My vote would be to reserve up to 225mb for William to include
> > Mac installers as he sees fit. It's only 5% of the disk. I
> > assume the osgeo4w archive is a similar size?
> 
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