Hi Bob,
That sounds really interesting, and would complement the linux based
packaging that we have been doing the the arramagong Live DVD and
Virtual Machine project.
In particular, we have a build process where any project which can write
a shell install script for an Ubuntu environment will be included on the
Live DVD.
It would now be quite easy to extend that to include a boot from USB
release as well. (You might want to write this).
However, I understand you are targeting windows, and I think that is a
great idea. I suggest building upon the osgeo4w project which is
building projects for windows. Frank Warnerdam can probably point you in
the right direction to get started.
Bob Basques wrote:
All,
I've been experimenting the last couple of weeks with building out a
standalone mapping service running from USB. Things are kind of
gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far. I did try other
combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with
the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache
Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from
PortableApps.
I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do. I was
really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since
it would make portability across OS's much nicer. I may go back and
hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make
that work. The one click option seems like it might be nicer this
way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB.
Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I
could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.
So, where am I at now. PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option
for Windows which is what I started working on. I intend to attack
MAC and Linux as well. The end result is to have a standalone mapping
service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB
and/or a one click startup, that may, at some future date, also update
itself from some master services yet to be named. :c)
bobb
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