Hi On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/06/2012 01:09 PM, Ramon Andiñach wrote: > >>> Also, why is the standalone preferred to the osgeo? >>
I and many others in bandwidth poor societies prefer the standalone installer as it is a 'download once, install many times *easily*' solution. The last time we checked the download stats were skewed heavily in favour of the standalone installer (somewhere in teh order of 100:1 in favour of it IIRC). Regards Tim >> >> My understanding is that it isn't. >> It is "recommended for new users" because the installer behaves in the >> usual windows manner. The osgeo installer behaves quite differently to that. > > > Indeed I would think that the 'stand alone' installer is only for very new > (windows) users who want to get their feet wet with QGIS. The OSGEO4W > installer has some peculiarities, but actually creates a much better > environment/experience I would say. > > To encourage QGIS users to use OSGEO4W installer instead we posted an > osgeo4w story recently (dutch/english and you are free to sent me a > translation or other input): > > http://www.qgis.nl/2012/06/20/qgis-installeren-via-osgeo4w/?lang=en > > I was hoping this is usefull for fresh Windows QGIS users :-) > > Regards, > > Richard Duivenvoorde > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
