Re: [udig-devel] M6 almost ready?

[andrea antonello <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Opps we are talking in Circles :-)

Indeed :)

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

Aha, I didn't know that. I guessed there would be a way to set them
just for the process. Emily, do you have any idea if that is possible?
I would not want to break anyones Gdal related software, which might
be of several types.

Andrea


>
> 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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