[postgis-users] Combined Windows version of PostGIS/P-LR

[Jan Hartmann]

Great, David. There's no hurry, and end of the week is *lots* faster 
than I would have expected.

Thanks,

Jan

TECHER David wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> It should not be very difficult to make an win32-installer
> 
> When I read http://www.joeconway.com/plr/,  I see that the windows 
> binary are already available
> 
> I think one way to do that should be to use inno setup at 
> http://www.jrsoftware.org/isinfo.php
> 
> I've used it in order to making a win32-installer for pgrouting 1.0.0.a 
> http://files.orkney.jp/pgrouting/binaries/pgRouting-1.0.0.a-0_win32.exe
> 
> I haven't enough times todays  to do that... perhaps the week-end.
> 
> --david;
> 
> 
> Jan Hartmann a écrit :
>> Hi folks (sorry for crossposting),
>>
>> Joe Conway just announced that PL/R will soon be available for 
>> Windows. See the thread starting at:
>>
>> http://gborg.postgresql.org/pipermail/plr-general/2007-June/000235.html
>>
>> PL/R is an implementation of the statistical package R within 
>> PostgreSQL. See:
>>
>> http://www.joeconway.com/plr/
>> http://www.r-project.org
>>
>> It's installed the same way as postGIS, but until now only a Linux 
>> version was available. I have them both enabled on my server at SARA 
>> computing center, and the functionality is unbelievable. My own 
>> organisation, however, doesn't allow me to install Linux servers, and 
>> even if they did, neither staff nor students would be willing or even 
>> able to work with them. I guess this is not a unique situation, so 
>> this Windows port is really important. Moreover, a PostgreSQl 
>> implementation with full GIS and statistical functionality is 
>> something that doesn't exist in the commercial world as far as I know. 
>> An easy installable Windows version would IMO really be a showpiece 
>> for Open Source software. I would really appreciate if people in the 
>> know on both these lists would put their heads together to implement 
>> this. I don't really know much about Windows installers, but my 
>> feeling is that it is not enormously difficult.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jan Hartmann
>>
>> Dr. J. Hartmann
>> Department of Geography
>> University of Amsterdam
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