Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-04-29 Thread Tim Sutton
Hi We will have a 'normal' windows installer for 1.1 and 1.02 when they come out. The GRASS support in these may have some remaining issues. Regards Tim On 22 Apr 2009, at 2:38 PM, JDCom wrote: this might help some of you: at the windows version download spot for qgis on the qgis.org

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-04-26 Thread JDCom
I have tried to install KORE version of QGIS into a vista machine using the OSGEO4W package with only some success. I am not in any position to help with building an installer but may I suggest that until an installer is available, could one of the many knowledgeable persons offer a list of

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-04-26 Thread JDCom
Carson - I have tried to install KORE version of QGIS into a vista machine using the OSGEO4W package with only some success. I am not in any position to help with building an installer but may I suggest that until an installer is available, could one of the many knowledgeable persons offer

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-04-26 Thread JDCom
this might help some of you: at the windows version download spot for qgis on the qgis.org website there is now a link (posted a few days ago) to a 'how-to' page explaining how and what to install from the osgeo installer. It helped me. JD -- View this message in context:

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-26 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Michael Toews ha scritto: On the topic of GRASS, I'm not sure exactly where the difficulties are, but I'm wondering if GRASS support is really needed for a standalone QGIS installer? From what I understand, QGIS doesn't actually require GRASS at all, except that certain plug-ins do require

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-26 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Agustin Agustin Lobo wrote: I personally use linux but have had to pay attention to Qgis running on Windows (and recently on Mac) because most students are using Windows (and, even worse, vista). But I must say that I feel a bit guilty for

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-26 Thread Tim Sutton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Agustin Agustin Lobo wrote: I personally use linux but have had to pay attention to Qgis running on Windows (and recently on Mac) because most students are using Windows (and, even worse, vista). But I must say that I feel a bit guilty for

[Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread Mats Elfström
Hi List! I take the liberty to start a new thread on this subject. I am currently having serious trouble using QGis because of the poor Windows support. I was happily using the second preview when I decided to upgrade to Kore. Then the trouble began. As described on the QGis forum, the so-called

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread Carson Farmer
hi Mats, As described on the QGis forum, the so-called installer leaves out important components in the Express installation, and renders an unusable system if an Advanced installation is attempted. really? have you checked the lists for this. I know lot's of people who are using the osgeo4w

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread Carson Farmer
Oops, my last email did not include the fact that there *is* a standalone Windows installer coming out very soon, and that it shouldn't be more than a week or so (assuming all goes according to plan ;-)) Cheers, Carson ___ Qgis-user mailing list

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread Agustin Lobo
I personally use linux but have had to pay attention to Qgis running on Windows (and recently on Mac) because most students are using Windows (and, even worse, vista). But I must say that I feel a bit guilty for this. Somehow I feel that there is a lot of very good brain time being devoted to deal

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread G. Allegri
I've opened various posts too on the problem. Various things are getting fixed for grass on Windows, as many bugs are coming out on Vista more then XP, but I think a real solution would come from a deep grass code refactoring to make it compile with MSVC* . Probably it would solve many problems

Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet?

2009-03-25 Thread Michael Toews
Macho werner.ma...@gmail.com, qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Wednesday, 25 March, 2009 10:38:29 GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Why no proper QGis Windows installer yet? I've opened various posts too on the problem. Various things are getting fixed for grass on Windows