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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.
Don't think that would conflict. We are not setting the vars at global
level. So they would only be available to the launched process, which
is what we want.
Andrea
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> 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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