[OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w setup.exe source code?
Hello list. Thanks everyone for the great work done with OSGeo4W. I have a strange (maybe) question. I suppose that osgeo4w setup.exe is a fork of the cygwin's setup. Is it possible to view/download its source code? Thanks, Giovanni ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w setup.exe source code?
G. Allegri wrote: Hello list. Thanks everyone for the great work done with OSGeo4W. I have a strange (maybe) question. I suppose that osgeo4w setup.exe is a fork of the cygwin's setup. Is it possible to view/download its source code? Giovanni, Yes, it is available in svn at: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/trunk/setup/ Some more information it is available at: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/SetupDevelopment Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush| Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w setup.exe source code?
Thanks Frank! 2009/2/25 Frank Warmerdam warmer...@pobox.com: G. Allegri wrote: Hello list. Thanks everyone for the great work done with OSGeo4W. I have a strange (maybe) question. I suppose that osgeo4w setup.exe is a fork of the cygwin's setup. Is it possible to view/download its source code? Giovanni, Yes, it is available in svn at: http://svn.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/trunk/setup/ Some more information it is available at: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/SetupDevelopment Best regards, -- ---+-- I set the clouds in motion - turn up | Frank Warmerdam, warmer...@pobox.com light and sound - activate the windows | http://pobox.com/~warmerdam and watch the world go round - Rush | Geospatial Programmer for Rent ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [Majas-dev] [Majas-users] Flex in geomajas
You may get in touch with the OpenScales project team in order to get additional feedback: http://openscales.org/ OpenScales is a very new project aiming at building with Flex something similar to OpenLayers. Regards, Benjamin Chartier Dirk Frigne a écrit : Sorry for the cross posting, but I found an interesting mail about performance and webmapping in the majas developers list. Today, Geomajas is written in Java for the server part, and uses _javascript_ in the frontend. Although the performance is good enough to support a proper amount of editable objects, we always are looking to mechanisms to improve the speed and usability of the front end. Pieter has done some tests with the Flex technology and they are very promising(details in his mail attached). Should it be a problem for distribution that the technology is shipped in the form of an installable plug-in instead of native browser technology such as VML or SVG, or isn't that an issue? And who has experience with this technology? I would appreciate your feedback ... Sincerely, Dirk Frigne http://www.geomajas.org -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: majas-dev-boun...@geomajas.org [mailto:majas-dev-boun...@geomajas.org] Namens Aurélien Pelletier Verzonden: maandag 23 februari 2009 11:04 Aan: pieter.degr...@geosparc.com CC: majas-users; l...@gegis.org; majas-dev Onderwerp: Re: [Majas-dev] [Majas-users] Flex in geomajas I work with client in the french public sector, additional plugin to the navigator like flash is usualy an issue. About mapping and flex you might want to check out http://openscales.org Regards, Aurélien Pieter De Graef wrote: Hi, i've been running tests on using Flex as a mapping technology for geomajas. The first results seem very promising: it is very fast and relatively easy to program for. Besides, Flex (or flash) has a market penetration of over 90% (flash 9 that is). The downside is that the bridge between _javascript_ and Flex' ActionScript is slow. So we should avoid sending large datastreams (large amount of features) over it. Anyway, the main question it wanted to ask on this list, is this: how commited is everyone to browser built-in technologies (such as VML in Internet explorer or SVG in FireFox)? We could for example simply throw out both VML and SVG, and replace them both with flex, but i am afraid that many companies' IT sections will object to geomajas requiring a plugin to work... Any thoughts? Regards, Pieter De Graef GeoSparc nv. http://www.geosparc.com/ Sponsor of: http://www.geomajas.org/ ___ Majas-users mailing list majas-us...@geomajas.org http://www.geomajas.org/mailman/listinfo/majas-users ___ Majas-dev mailing list majas-...@geomajas.org http://www.geomajas.org/mailman/listinfo/majas-dev ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] RE: [Majas-dev] [Majas-users] Flex in geomajas
OpenScales is a very new project aiming at building with Flex something similar to OpenLayers. Hi Benjamin. I didn't know about this project. Is there any demo, screenshot, or similar? ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
[OSGeo-Discuss] FW: [OGC Press Release] The OGC forms a Spatial Law and Policy Committee [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Apologies for cross posting. Bruce Bannerman -Original Message- From: media-bounces+b.bannerman=bom.gov...@lists.opengeospatial.org [mailto:media-bounces+b.bannerman=bom.gov...@lists.opengeospat ial.org] On Behalf Of OGC Press Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2009 6:43 AM To: me...@lists.opengeospatial.org Subject: [OGC Press Release] The OGC forms a Spatial Law and Policy Committee PRESS ANNOUNCEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For information about this announcement, contact: Sam Bacharach Executive Director, Outreach and Community Adoption Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc tel: +1-703-352-3938 sbachar...@opengeospatial.org -- - February 25, 2009, Wayland, Massachusetts. The Board of Directors of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC(r)) has chartered a committee of the Board to specifically address the spatial law and policy issues which will influence development requirements of the Consortium's technology process. The Spatial Law and Policy Committee (SLPC) will be chaired by OGC director and Executive Committee member, Kevin Pomfret, and will be organized under board leadership as an educational forum to include both select member and community participation. In the past, legal issues associated with spatial data and technology were primarily a concern for lawyers that worked with or for the government. Now, both public sector and private sector users and providers of geospatial data and technologies face a wide range of legal issues associated with growth in consumer and business applications for spatial technology. Such applications include Earth browsers, satellite navigation devices in cars and PDA's, location-based services associated with cell phones, business intelligence, social networking and satellite tracking of vehicles and equipment. All of these applications raise issues that involve intellectual property rights, liability, privacy, and national security. In many cases, the existing legal and policy framework is inadequate to provide governments, businesses and consumers clear guidance on these issues. David Schell, OGC Chairman, said, The OGC plays an expanding role in addressing society's increasing dependence on geospatial information services. The advent of information interoperability in this technology domain raises the profile of geospatial information for policy makers, managers and scientists around the world. The Board's creation at this time of a Spatial Law and Policy Committee reflects the increasing need of leaders to understand the challenges they face in this area, and the Board's commitment to meeting their related information requirements. Kevin Pomfret added, I am looking forward to working with the OGC and its members on these important issues. Due in large part to their collective vision and hard work, spatial technology and applications using spatial data are increasingly being utilized in a wide range of important activities. In order for this growth to continue, a solid legal and policy framework must exist. The OGC's Spatial Law and Policy Committee can play a critical role in the development of such a framework. The SLPC, in particular, will provide an open forum for OGC members' legal and policy advisors to discuss the unique legal and policy issues associated with spatial data and technology. The Committee will also work with relevant legal groups, such as the ABA, to raise awareness of these issues within the broader legal community. The SLPC will not provide legal advice to the OGC or its Members and will not take a position on any legal or policy matter on behalf of the OGC or its membership. It will rather focus on clarification of the legal and policy environment of the Consortium and work to ensure that Consortium standards reflect related best practices and the societal requirements that shape institutional uptake of interoperable geoprocessing. Kevin Pomfret is a Richmond, Virginia based attorney well known for the work he has done on assorted legal issues associated with spatial data and technology, including intellectual property rights, licensing, liability, privacy and national security. Prior to entering the law, he served as a satellite imagery analyst with the U.S. government where he specialized in the development of imagery collection strategies to monitor critical arms control agreements. He also served in various U.S. government positions responsible for developing Intelligence community satellite imagery collections and exploitation requirements. Over the years he has written and spoken extensively on spatial law and technology. The OGC(r) is an international consortium of more than 370 companies, government agencies, research organizations, and universities participating in a consensus process
Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] osgeo4w setup.exe source code?
Building an msi just adds complication. I also have not seen any open source tools to do it either. In reality an msi is just a microsoft compressed database format they invented. Because typical installers write to registry using an msi prevents you from running more than one at the same time. In the case of the QGIS installer and other products on the osgeo4w, the exe doesn't actually write to the registry. It's more like a self extracted zip file, that also creates shortcuts. The normal qgis installer was also exe based as it is built using the extremely common open source installer tool from Nullsoft (the makers of winamp) In terms of security, there's no reason to think an msi is any more secure than an exe and running msi require that the end user always have the correct windows installer library installed. Since Microsoft no longer supports some older versions of windows, if a Visual Studio tool was used to build the installer there's a chance older(Win2k,WinXP) users would be out of luck. Alex nicholas.g.lawre...@mainroads.qld.gov.au wrote: Hello list. Thanks everyone for the great work done with OSGeo4W. I have a strange (maybe) question. I suppose that osgeo4w setup.exe is a fork of the cygwin's setup. Is it possible to view/download its source code? Thanks, Giovanni I have a different question. Is setup.exe the best way to install software on microsoft windows? Has Windows Installer, that is an .msi file been considered? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_installer I know that my IT section has a strong preference for software to be installed via .msi. Regards, nick *** WARNING: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain legally privileged, confidential or private information and may be protected by copyright. You may only use it if you are the person(s) it was intended to be sent to and if you use it in an authorised way. No one is allowed to use, review, alter, transmit, disclose, distribute, print or copy this e-mail without appropriate authority. If this e-mail was not intended for you and was sent to you by mistake, please telephone or e-mail me immediately, destroy any hardcopies of this e-mail and delete it and any copies of it from your computer system. Any right which the sender may have under copyright law, and any legal privilege and confidentiality attached to this e-mail is not waived or destroyed by that mistake. It is your responsibility to ensure that this e-mail does not contain and is not affected by computer viruses, defects or interference by third parties or replication problems (including incompatibility with your computer system). Opinions contained in this e-mail do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Queensland Department of Main Roads, Queensland Transport or Maritime Safety Queensland, or endorsed organisations utilising the same infrastructure. *** ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
