Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-23 Thread Paolo Cavallini
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Il 22/09/2013 10:35, Tamas Szekeres ha scritto: I'd suggest Mateusz an Jeff should also be invited (if they have time). Any other who is involved in packaging Windows stuff, please feel free to check in as well. I personally would welcome any

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-22 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On 2013-09-22 00:35, Tamas Szekeres wrote: And so on (anyone is welcomed to add further experiences or ideas)  Hi all. I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-22 Thread Tamas Szekeres
2013/9/22 Paolo Cavallini cavall...@faunalia.it I agree with Tamas: we first have an issue with governance; once this is solved, we can deal with tech issues. Anyone a suggestion to move forward? To me, the first candidates that come to mind are Frank, Tamas, and Juergen: anyone else?

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-21 Thread Fenoy Gerald
Alex, thanks a lot for such kind of answer. In fact what I have in mind is more to provide a build suite, I definitely don't know how to name it. Anyway, let say something that make you able to download this or that software and which will make sure that you will get everything required to

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-21 Thread Tamas Szekeres
Gerald, There are so many decisions that should be made regarding to either the suggested directions to follow, or the technical details, which might apply for a PSC indeed. You've meant to prepare something for the developers (something like what I've indended to do with the binaries at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-21 Thread Mateusz Loskot
On 21 September 2013 23:35, Tamas Szekeres szeker...@gmail.com wrote: And so on (anyone is welcomed to add further experiences or ideas) I think it may be worth to remind about CoApp: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/osgeo4w-dev/2013-April/002168.html Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot,

[OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-20 Thread Gérald Fenoy
Dear all,  Despite I agree with you that providing the OSGeo softwares in a binary distribution is a good idea, what do you think of providing something, which may be IMO even better to the end users / developpers, let's call it a build kit or a build environment already correctly setup for

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-20 Thread Dave Patton
On 2013/09/20 16:39, Alex Mandel wrote: Unlike OSGeoLive we can't supply VMs as that takes paid licenses for the software in question. Alex - could you please clarify what you mean by this statement. Thanks -- Dave Patton Victoria, B.C. Degree Confluence Project: Canadian Coordinator

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-20 Thread Alex Mandel
On 09/20/2013 05:33 PM, Dave Patton wrote: On 2013/09/20 16:39, Alex Mandel wrote: Unlike OSGeoLive we can't supply VMs as that takes paid licenses for the software in question. Alex - could you please clarify what you mean by this statement. Thanks We can't give out Windows Virtual

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-20 Thread Paolo Cavallini
On 2013-09-21 03:01, Alex Mandel wrote: We can't give out Windows Virtual Machine(VM) images with Visual Studio I think standalone binaries are really the only way to go for the average Win user. Thanks for your thoughts. -- Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia www.faunalia.eu Full contact details at

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE : Re: OSGEO4W future

2013-09-20 Thread Pat Tressel
If you can come up with a way to do it on Windows I think many people are listening. The nature of Windows and Visual Studio tends to be what gets in the way of a more package management style system or build environment that's easy to replicate. I see no reason there can't be a shortcut in