Doug, John,
From the next release of OSGeo-Live (6.0), we will need to retire
support for Sun Java. Hence OpenJDK will be required instead. Good news
is that OpenJDK has gotten much better, and I suggest checking again to
see if Whitebox GAT can be moved to OpenJDK.
On 24/04/2012 1:57 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Software looks nice. With regards to putting on the live DVD, I
noticed that Whitebox requires the SUN Java JRE to be installed. I'm
not sure you can distribute the JRE on a live DVD, since Oracle
retired the 'Operating System Distributor License for Java’.
http://jdk-distros.java.net/
Doug
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Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools v. 2.0
John,
Congratulations on your release.
I wonder whether this project is a candidate for OSGeo-Live,
http://live.osgeo.org.
In looking through your introduction I have a few questions, which were
not obvious to me.
What type of user would wish to make use of Whitebox GAT? What tasks
would they be performing?
Does Whitebox make use of other geospatial libraries? Maybe geotools or
sextante? One of the most effective ways of attracting co-developers is
to build upon an existing project or library and adopt developers from
this project.
Who is currently using Whitebox GAT?
You would likely wish to weave answers to these questions into your
website home page.
On 22/04/2012 10:39 PM, John Lindsay wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Many of you have been asking when a new version of the open-source
GIS Whitebox would be released. Well we've been very busy working on
it, and now we're are excited to announce that the new version of
Whitebox GAT has finally arrived. Please visit
<http://live.osgeo.org/>http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html
for more information.
>
> Whitebox has been completely re-written. The main reason for this
was to allow Whitebox to be truly multi-platform, running equally well
on MS Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. This has been a major undertaking
and as such there are still a few tools and features from Whitebox
1.0.7 that need to be translated over to the new version. We're
looking for volunteers to help with the work yet to be done (including
working on the help documentation, testing and reporting bugs).
Whitebox is now written using Java, the world's most popular
multi-platform programming language. I know there are a lot of you out
there with Java programming skills who could contribute to the
project. There have also been many additions to version 2.0, including
support for displaying vector ShapeFiles, plenty of new tools, new
image processing functionality, and an improved user interface (
<http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html>http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html
). As always, we welcome any feedback to help improve the software.
Please contact John Lindsay with any comments you may have.
>
> John Lindsay, Ph.D., Associate Professor
> Department of Geography, University of Guelph
> Guelph, Ont. N1G 2W1 CANADA
> Phone: (519) 824-4120 x56074
> Fax: (519) 837-2940
> Email: [email protected]
> Department Web:
<http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Ehydrogeo/Whitebox/screenshots.html>http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/people/faculty/lindsay.shtml
> Whitebox GAT Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html
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