AW: Re: [Qgis-user] INTERLIS plugin on mac

[Annina Hirschi Wyss]

Hi Stefan, Marco, William

Thank you very much for your help and plugin-update! Works like a charm :-) (with the ili2c.jar copy in /usr/bin for the model)

Just a queston:  It seems only INTERLIS 1 is supported?
Are there plans to support INTERLIS 2 too?

Thanks again!
Annina

On Oct 11, 2010, at 8:45 AM, Marco Hugentobler wrote:

> Hi Stefan
> 
> Thanks for looking into this. The changed plugin (v. 0.6.1) is uploaded to the 
> repo.
> 
>> Since python knows Mac OS X as "Darwin" [1] it will recognize it as a
>> windows machine....
> 
> Oh, true. I thought it would be something with 'mac' in it. But that would be 
> like saying GNU instead of Linux :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Marco
> 
> Am Sonntag, 10. Oktober 2010, um 18.21:25 schrieb Ziegler Stefan:
>> Hi Annina
>> 
>> I think I have a solution. There are two issues:
>> 
>> 1) "The PATH problem": You can copy the ili2c.jar to one of the
>> following directories:
>> * /usr/bin
>> * /bin
>> * /usr/sbin
>> * /sbin
>> 
>> If you are on your own computer this should not be a problem. You don't
>> need to do this for the JRE.
>> 
>> 2) There is a little bug in the interlis plugin. It needs to know
>> weather it is a windows machine or not. It uses a python method for this
>> and counts the word "win" in the OS name returned by the python method.
>> Since python knows Mac OS X as "Darwin" [1] it will recognize it as a
>> windows machine.... I cc this email to Marco, the author of the plugin.
>> 
>> @Marco: Can you replace line 63 of interlisdialog.py with "if(osString
>> == "win32" or osString == "cygwin"):" ?
>> 
>> [1]: http://docs.python.org/library/sys.html
>> 
>> 
>> regards
>> Stefan
>> 
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>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>> Von: Annina Hirschi Wyss [mailto:annina.hirschi at gmx.net]
>>> Gesendet am: Samstag, 9. Oktober 2010 11:46
>>> An: qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org
>>> Cc: William Kyngesburye
>>> Betreff: Re: [Qgis-user] INTERLIS plugin on mac
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your help, William,
>>> 
>>> I'm quite discouraged... Hope getting some help from the
>>> plugin developer
>>> 
>>> On Oct 8, 2010, at 9:57 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>> On Oct 8, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Annina Hirschi Wyss wrote:
>>>>> On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:04 PM, William Kyngesburye wrote:
>>>>>> On Oct 8, 2010, at 11:32 AM, Annina Hirschi Wyss wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi List,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I can't get the INTERLIS plugin to work on my OSX
>>> 
>>> 10.6.4, QGIS 1.5.0 (Framework install from KyngChaos). It
>>> says it can't find the JRE, so I set the JAVA_HOME variable
>>> and path, but no change...
>>> 
>>>>>>> Am I missing something, or did someone make similar experiences?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Do you need model support?  From what the dialog says for
>>> 
>>> loading Interlis data, Java is needed for model support,
>>> implying that will still read interlis data without it.
>>> 
>>>>> Yes I'd like to. but even if i try to load an interlis xml
>>> 
>>> without a model, it's not selectable in the "choose"-window
>>> 
>>>> I don't know about this, it sounds like a problem with the
>>> 
>>> operation of the plugin.
>>> 
>>>>>> Adding the JRE path to the environment is yet another
>>> 
>>> case where OS X applications do not get any of the shell
>>> environment (ie set in your .bash_profile).  There is a
>>> hidden, little documented (if at all) method to get
>>> environment into an application, but I don't like to
>>> encourage it because it's clunky to use (hidden file, and no
>>> GUI unless you install 3rd party software).
>>> 
>>>>> do you mean the /etc/paths-file? Or is it more complex?
>>>> 
>>>> That's also just for the shell.
>>>> 
>>>> If you really, really, really want to use this hidden
>>> 
>>> environment thing, install the RCEnvironment preference pane.
>>> 
>>>> -----
>>>> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
>>>> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
>>>> 
>>>> "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and
>>> 
>>> with no particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can
>>> until the war is over. That is my duty."
>>> 
>>>> "Don't you even hate 'em?"
>>>> 
>>>> "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions
>>> 
>>> of people of the allied nations devoted an entire year
>>> exclusively to hating the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor
>>> shorten the war one day."
>>> 
>>>> <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers."
>>>> 
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> 
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