On 09/24/2013 12:50 AM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 2:08 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <gcpp.kal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> Hi Daniel, >> >> I am in favor of both OSGeoLive and OSGeo4W going through a few weeks >> incubation process. >> >> Best, >> Angelos >> > My own impression is that if we want to reach out to non-geek GIS > users the ideal way would be a system like portable GIS with the great > documentation of the live dvd, ie run and test the programs without > needing to be admin or having to install different programs.
I've researched this problem, talked with Jo (Current author of PortableGIS http://www.archaeogeek.com/portable-gis.html) There is almost no way to make this work without Admin priveleges on a windows machine. Some individual apps can be made to work by extensively modifying how they look for libs but many require things like a jvm to run on top of, or a mix of system an local libs (e.g. Visual C++ is required for many OSGeo4W apps and requires an install, that's actually about the only part that has to be installed vs just in the OSGeo4w folder). This is actually why I settled on helping create OSGeo Live bootable products and virtual machines. Of course this isn't perfect either as figuring out how to boot a disk or usb seems beyond some users, and the virtual machine still hits needing admin to install virtualization software. I also agree there's no reason many of the documentation efforts can't be shared. Thanks, Alex _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
