Glynn Clements wrote:
I downloaded the installer and, yes, that's exactly what I was
suggesting that GRASS should be doing. It shouldn't be necessary to
re-download dozens of third-party libraries with every GRASS snapshot
or release candidate.
It would be particularly useful if it could be extended for use by
developers as well as end users, by including the MinGW/MSys
development environment (gcc, make, flex, bison etc).
Glynn,
OSGeo4W does endevour to include the stub libraries and include files
for the packages (such as libpng, etc). I hadn't contemplated including
the MingW before, but I wouldn't mind including it if someone wanted
to package it.
One thing which I'm curious about: is it necessary to host all of the
packages on a common server? I know that the setup.ini file normally
only contains pathnames. Is that a restriction of setup.exe?
I do not know a way of having packages come from different locations.
I have certainly wanted some means of "federated respositories" for
a variety of reasons. First, I would like a mechanism to support
"non-free" packages external to OSGeo that I don't feel it is right
for OSGeo to host. Second, I'd like a way of using OSGeo4W to
deliver custom content to particular clients of mine.
Unfortunately, while I have made noteworthy changes to the setup
program, I have found it a somewhat challenging environment to
work in.
> Is it
something which would be easy to change? Would it be feasible to
configure the web server to use HTTP redirects to have non-OSGeo
packages (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, etc) retrieved from the original site?
This could work in theory, but is still leaves a challenge to build
the setup.ini from these packages in different places. Currently the
setup.ini generation script makes a pass over a particular directory
tree.
I'd add that stuff like TIFF, JPEG and PNG still need to be "packaged"
as the final packages need a particular directory layout, and need
to be packaged as a .tar.bz2 file.
Best regards,
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