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Re: [udig-devel] M6 almost ready?
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In an installer we have a chance to set the system environmental
variables. This would allow the udig.exe to work correctly; at the
cost of possible a version conflict with FWTools or anything else
using GDAL.
Jody
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:38 PM, andrea
antonello<andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I had a chance to try out the installer you made for 1.2-M6 - it seems
>> we missed something in the installer (and it is probably our fault for
>> not sending enough email to the list). For this release of uDig we are
>> trying to have:
>> - udig.bat <--- this is what the start menu entry should point to
>> - udig_private.exe
>>
>> The idea is that the bat file sets the required environmental
>> variables (pointing to the included gdal_data folder). Now you could
>> get your installer to do that? Or just have a short cut to the bat
>> file for now.
>
> Yes, exactly Jody, the variables needed would be:
>
>
> GDAL_DATA pointing to the "gdal_data" folder we placed inside the installation.
> GDAL_DRIVER_PATH pointing to the jre\bin\ folder inside which we
> placed the imageio-ext stuff.
>
> By doing so we would be able to rename udig_internal.exe to udig.exe
> as people expect it to be. The downside is that if someone executes it
> from the program files folder, he will miss the imageio-ext
> dependencies.
> So perhaps easy way to go is to just link to the bat file.
>
> Ciao
> Andrea
>
>
>
>>
>> Jody
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