Hi Alister, On Wed, 08. Feb 2012 at 14:26:47 +0000, Alister Hood wrote: > > Use the standalone installer, is less risky to have something get wrong.
> 2. Is it really so necessary to dissuade people from using the OSGeo4W > "Setup"? > - It is much quicker and easier. E.g. when a new version of QGIS is released > you only need to click through setup again to update. You don't need to go > to the QGIS website, download a new installer (which will waste time and > bandwidth because it is bigger - especially since it includes GRASS, which > many people would never use), run the installer, and separately run the > uninstaller for the old version. The usual argument is that people are used to (<bias>huge and bloated</bias>) standalone installers. And those are easier for places with slow connectivity (or off-net). I'm not sure about that either - especially when updates are considered. I don't recommend the standalone installer either - I just make it ;) But that's done from the osgeo4w packages anyway. > - I'm not convinced the OSGeo4W installer is very risky. Are people having > problems with it without doing an "advanced install" and choosing weird > things Me neither - and yes, I think that installing stuff, that the (documented) need of third party dependencies was the trouble maker again. > - always install "setup" - make it a dependency of every other package. > - change the label of "setup" in the start menu to something which makes it > really obvious that this is how you add/remove/upgrade/rollback packages. Sounds good and easy. > - Explain that if you want to remove _everything_ you can just delete the > main OSGeo4W folder. > I guess it would be _possible_ to make the osgeo4w installer automatically > install "setup", and put something in the Windows "add remove programs" to > launch it, but it would require more work... That's probably not that difficult - just needs some googling - and some time ;) Jürgen -- Jürgen E. Fischer norBIT GmbH Tel. +49-4931-918175-20 Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Rheinstraße 13 Fax. +49-4931-918175-50 Software Engineer D-26506 Norden http://www.norbit.de -- norBIT Gesellschaft fuer Unternehmensberatung und Informationssysteme mbH Rheinstrasse 13, 26506 Norden GF: Jelto Buurman, HR: Amtsgericht Emden, HRB 5502 _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
