Re: [udig-devel] M6 almost ready?

[Emily Gouge <egouge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Between these emails and the other ones I've seen from Jody I'm a little 
confused :)

What I *think* I can do is:

a) Make an installer that points to the udig.bat file instead of the 
udig_private.exe file.

OR

b) Make the installer set the system environment variables GDAL_DATA & 
GDAL_DRIVER_PATH.  However, this will overwrite these environment 
variables if they exist causing conflicts with existing installations of 
GDAL_DATA and GDAL_DRIVER_PATH.

I don't think I can make an installer that sets the environment 
variables of a program for each "session".  I think that would have to 
be done when the udig.exe file is created.  I could be totally wrong as 
I don't have that much experience with NSIS - if you know otherwise 
please let me know.

So which of the above two do you think are best?

Emily



andrea antonello wrote:
> > 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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