Re: [udig-devel] M6 almost ready?

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Opps we are talking in Circles :-)

Emily is making an installer; and thus she can set the variables at a
global level :-)

Jody

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, andrea
antonello<andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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
>
>
>
>>
>> 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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