On 07-01-2011 15:07, Jason Roberts wrote:
Tamas,
WIX looks like a great technology for building the installation
package. I've never used it but I took a quick look and it seems to
provide what is needed.
As I understand it, you are pondering whether it would be better to
have GDAL in Program Files\OSGeo\GDAL or in Program Files\GDAL. Is it
simply a question aesthetics or principle, in which it seems proper to
put all OSgeo projects under Program Files\OSGeo, but there could be
problems coordinating the efforts of multiple projects to adhere to
that carefully and not mash each other's files? If that summarizes the
issue, then I'd recommend going with the more practical, less
principled approach: put GDAL in Program Files\GDAL, and OSGeo4W in
Program Files\OSGeo4W. It could get messy if both installers have to
be able to create the Program Files\OSGeo directory but not
necessarily delete it when they are uninstalled, because there could
be another OSGeo project in there.
Let me just recall that OSGeo4W proposes the default install directory
as C:\OSGeo4W
This is just my opinion and I feel quite at rest because I'm able to
build GDAL and install it wherever I wont, but I would really hate that
an installer would force me to install in a location contrary to my
will. In particular when that location has blanks in the name (Program
Files).
But, as I said it's just my private view.
Joaquim
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