Hi, I'm new to this list and before anything else I would like to thank the people behind OSGeo4W for their work. I believe it makes OSGeo projects much more accessible to common GIS users.
For the purpose of a GIS programming lab, I'm trying to get up and running the following: Python, a Python IDE and several libraries (primarily GDAL/OGR and Mapnik but also Geopy). Regarding the IDE, I don't have specific requirements, I merely want to avoid using cmd.exe because this might frighten my students :) IDLE would be fine for example but I can't find it in the OSGeo4W components. I see that Pythonwin is present but I get this error when I launch it: This application has failed to start because MSVCR71.dll was not found. I did try to re-install python-win32 but it doesn't help (my test platform is Windows XP within a VirtualBox). I'm thinking of installing Python/IDLE separately but I'm not sure it will be able to find/use packages from the osgeo4w stack. I'm looking for advices about the easiest way to get a Python GIS programming environment under Windows. Best regards -- Gilles Bassière - Web/GIS software engineer http://gbassiere.free.fr/ _______________________________________________ osgeo4w-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/osgeo4w-dev
