[udig-devel] Re: [Geotools-devel] osgeo4w - udig - geotools & geoserver

["andrea antonello" <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  > Jody, could you please test the installer and tell me if for udig
>  That is a pretty sweet installer; I do wish the default download
>  directory was a bit smarter (it tried downloading into my program files
>  thunderbird directory, rather than my desktop or documents directory
>  ...) Suppose they are hoping you downloaded it and then ran it; rather
>  than the way thunderbird and firefox work where they start the process
>  off for you...
>
>  I don't quite understand the way connections work here - I check udig;
>  and it automatically lists 1.6.0_05-1 (not sure where the -1 comes from
>  - probably because I had a download with that name already?) Also uDig
>  includes its own Java does it not? So the JRE above is not needed....

There are some guidelines to follow and since some other applications
could need java, it has to be in a common path. They asked me if i
could split it into bin and lib, which is how a jre is really, so I
gave it a try and it worked properly. Udig shipps without jre inside.

>  Once you make it to the "Select Packages" page you cannot go back; it
>  tends to do a progress bar; screw up and then return you to the same
>  page. Cancel works however.
>
>  Express Install does not work; checking GDAL and pressing NEXT produces
>  a bunch of warnings about "Un met Dependencies Found" (for curl, expat,
>  geos, hdf4 etc...). Pressing BACK from the Express Install takes you to
>  the same broken Select Packages screen.

I will tell this. It didn't happen to me.

>  It would be very handy for the imageio-ext people to get on this train
>  as well; it is part of the fun we are having when setting up our own JRE.

Yes, sure. They could be their own package.

>  If I stop trying to get GDAL going and just choose uDig from the Select
>  packages menu; and uncheck the Java line that is automatically turned on
>  it seems to download stuff just fine! It was interesting that the
>  download was a udig-1.1rc14.tar.bz2 - this must of been a package you
>  made up? Oh wait now it is installing  - seems to be going well.

Yes, I made the package, since it has to be a bzip2 and also it has to
be shipped with udig inside an apps folder, in order to fit in the
game.

>  I asked it to create an item on my desktop and on my start menu, after
>  installation I can see:
>  - an OSGeo4W icon on my desktop; all it does is start a cmd prompt near
>  as I can tell
>  - the start menu also has an OSGeo folder; with a single entry to open a
>  shell

Yes, I have to investigate also what that should be for.

>  So we need to make sure a uDig short cut is added here?

This is still a todo for all the applications. But they will create
the scripts to do it for all applications.

>  Chances are that these installers are tripping up over windows vista? If
>  I navigate to C:\OSGeo4W\apps\udig I can find udig.exe sitting there; it
>  does not have a jre included (is that sane?). I can run the application
>  (I get a warning that JAI is not installed).
>
>  I can run  Perhaps the dependency mentioned above includes JRE + ImageIO
>  and JAI ?  going to try uninstalling and trying again...

Sorry, for now you have to use the bat file. I wanted to talk about it
with you. I thought adding the -vm argument to the udig.ini would
work, but it didn't for me. Are you able to get this work? i think it
doesn't take relative paths, could that be?

>  Wait there is no way to uninstall ...

Strange, they were talking about it, another thing to ask.

Andrea

>  Jody
>