Re: [udig-devel] Re: 1.2-M4 getting blocked on imageio-ext jre setup

[Daniele Romagnoli <daniele.romagnoli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jody,
the installer auto-detect the java JDK and install native libs on bin. 
Basically, some customers asked to simplify the installer to avoid user defined path or manual setting of environment variables and let do all the things automatically. However, we could improve its behaviour but we should check whether the last installer-maker version does allow for better setting and customizations since Environment variable settings isn't well supported).

Anyway, smart users (having more experience in customization) may download, from the release subtree:
 - libraries section [1]:
     - imageio-ext required jars   
     - gdal_data (containing CRS definitions needed by gdal to handle some crs by some drivers)
- native-libraries section [2]:
   - the proper OS specific set of native libs (Windows DLLs / Linux SOs).

[1]: https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=11288&expandFolder=11288&folderID=11137
[2]: https://imageio-ext.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=11287&expandFolder=11287&folderID=11137

Hope this helps.
Daniele

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Okay turns out that the imageio-ext jars packaged up in our jre
downloads no longer match. As such the ImageUtilities method was
blowing up on me; normal tiff files will not display and so on.

So I have tried out the he imageioio-ext-installer - and was pretty
impressed. It is willing to install jai and imageio but seems to only
target the jdk (and it places the gdal dlls in the jdk/bin where as I
need it in the jdk/jre/bin).

I am going to try and sort out what goes where; but in the mean time
the release is off until we can get this one fixed.

Jody

> But I have one show stopper - png images are getting scrambled on me again :-(
>                        // PNG native support is not very good .. this turns it off
>                        ImageUtilities.allowNativeCodec("png", ImageReaderSpi.class, false);
>                    }
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