Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-26 Thread Basques, Bob (CI-StPaul)
. Bobb -Original Message- From: live-demo-boun...@lists.osgeo.org [mailto:live-demo- boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2012 5:08 PM To: live-demo@lists.osgeo.org Subject: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live I've not really

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On 25 October 2012 03:33, Brian Hamlin mapl...@light42.com wrote: this is breathtakingly unrealistic :-) Thanks! :) I'll approach some of the criticisms... * Alex, yes, correctly compiling Windows things is hard. But someone has done it for OSGeo4W, Jo has done it for Portable GIS. That

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/25/2012 12:29 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I'm just thinking that there's more worth in concentrating efforts in getting OSGeo applications out there rather than spinning up new Ubuntu distributions every six months. To that end, a simple, user-driven binary installation process would

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi Barry, On 10/25/2012 10:29 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On 25 October 2012 03:33, Brian Hamlin mapl...@light42.com wrote: this is breathtakingly unrealistic :-) Thanks! :) I'll approach some of the criticisms... * Alex, yes, correctly compiling Windows things is hard. But someone

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
And something I forgot to write down: What about security updates? We would need to maintain libraries like Qt, while this is done upstream right now. Best, Angelos On 10/25/2012 11:16 AM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote: Hi Barry, On 10/25/2012 10:29 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: On 25 October 2012

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Cameron Shorter
Barry, An interesting idea you have brought up. Here are some thoughts that Jody Garnett mentioned in IRC today... jgarnett there is a slightly different approach to consider jgarnett if you look at things like home brew kalxas but I don't believe it fits the way GNU/Linux works jgarnett they

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Alex Mandel
Some other candidates include... Puppet Chef Juju (new almost identical thing for Ubuntu specifically) Vagrant On 10/25/2012 02:07 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote: Barry, An interesting idea you have brought up. Here are some thoughts that Jody Garnett mentioned in IRC today... jgarnett there is

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-25 Thread Jody Garnett
Yes that is the idea. On Friday, 26 October 2012 at 7:22 AM, Alex Mandel wrote: Some other candidates include... Puppet Chef Juju (new almost identical thing for Ubuntu specifically) Vagrant Basically ask projects to focus on the install scripts, package that up as a separate

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-24 Thread Alex Mandel
On 10/24/2012 03:08 PM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I've not really thought this through, but I'll put it out there for discussion... Would the effort spent on creating the osgeo-live disc be better spent creating a 'portable' set of compiled applications, for Linux, Mac, and Windows platforms?

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-24 Thread Angelos Tzotsos
Hi Barry and thanks for sharing your thoughts. My comments inline: On 10/25/2012 01:08 AM, Barry Rowlingson wrote: I've not really thought this through, but I'll put it out there for discussion... Would the effort spent on creating the osgeo-live disc be better spent creating a 'portable' set

Re: [Live-demo] Rethinking osgeo-live

2012-10-24 Thread Brian Hamlin
this is breathtakingly unrealistic :-) The trick to my mind is synergy and incremental advances, ready to couple with substantial advancements when they occur. There is no model in FOSS for a 'grand plan' sort of execution as suggested here.. on any number of levels with that said, it is