[FWTools] gdal georaster

[Matt Wilkie]

Jeff, for maintaining/installing osgeo4w on multiple machines you might 
want to try the apt command line installer 
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki/pkg-apt.

Assuming you use the "from scratch" recipe, the following will give you 
a working GDAL 1.6 command line shell with python on a new machine in 2 
minutes (assuming fast connection to mirror):

    set osgeo4w_root=c:\o4w
    apt setup
    apt install shell gdal16 gdal16-python
    c:\o4w\osgeo4w.bat
    gdal16.bat

cheers,

matt wilkie
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On 14/07/2010 9:31 AM, Jeff Ruby wrote:
>> In fact it is becoming increasingly likely that I won't be producing any
>> new FWTools releases!  I don't have the old build machine and I'm increasingly
>> inclined to focus on OSGeo4W on windows.
>>
>
> That's too bad.  I found FWTools to be MUCH easier to setup that
> OSGeo4W.  We just run the exe and we have a working shell with GDAL,
> Python and OpenEV.  You just open the shell and go.  It has the latest
> dev version of GDAL and all the python scripts just work.
>
> I still haven't actually gotten all the same things working with
> OSGeo4W...though I really haven't tried all that hard because I would
> just default back to FWTools.  To do the same think in OSGeo4W seems
> to require a lot more work.  I have to figure out what to click to get
> the latest GDAL, then (I think) I'll have to remap paths so it doesn't
> use the lastest stable version.  I still don't think I've figured out
> how to get the GDAL python scripts to work.  Probably none of that is
> very hard to figure out with a little effort, but
> Setup->Next->Next->...->Done is a lot easier...especially when we're
> doing in on 30+ machines and less knowledgeable folks configuring
> them.
>
> There is a TON of good stuff in OSGeo4W, but it's tough to beat
> simplicity of FWTools for using the latest dev GDAL.
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