[udig-devel] Re: [Geotools-devel] osgeo4w - udig - geotools & geoserver

[Jody Garnett <jgarnett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andrea antonello wrote:
> Jody, could you please test the installer and tell me if for udig
That is a pretty sweet installer; I do wish the default download 
directory was a bit smarter (it tried downloading into my program files 
thunderbird directory, rather than my desktop or documents directory 
...) Suppose they are hoping you downloaded it and then ran it; rather 
than the way thunderbird and firefox work where they start the process 
off for you...

I don't quite understand the way connections work here - I check udig; 
and it automatically lists 1.6.0_05-1 (not sure where the -1 comes from 
- probably because I had a download with that name already?) Also uDig 
includes its own Java does it not? So the JRE above is not needed....

Once you make it to the "Select Packages" page you cannot go back; it 
tends to do a progress bar; screw up and then return you to the same 
page. Cancel works however.

Express Install does not work; checking GDAL and pressing NEXT produces 
a bunch of warnings about "Un met Dependencies Found" (for curl, expat, 
geos, hdf4 etc...). Pressing BACK from the Express Install takes you to 
the same broken Select Packages screen.

It would be very handy for the imageio-ext people to get on this train 
as well; it is part of the fun we are having when setting up our own JRE.

If I stop trying to get GDAL going and just choose uDig from the Select 
packages menu; and uncheck the Java line that is automatically turned on 
it seems to download stuff just fine! It was interesting that the 
download was a udig-1.1rc14.tar.bz2 - this must of been a package you 
made up? Oh wait now it is installing  - seems to be going well.

I asked it to create an item on my desktop and on my start menu, after 
installation I can see:
- an OSGeo4W icon on my desktop; all it does is start a cmd prompt near 
as I can tell
- the start menu also has an OSGeo folder; with a single entry to open a 
shell

So we need to make sure a uDig short cut is added here?

Chances are that these installers are tripping up over windows vista? If 
I navigate to C:\OSGeo4W\apps\udig I can find udig.exe sitting there; it 
does not have a jre included (is that sane?). I can run the application 
(I get a warning that JAI is not installed).

I can run  Perhaps the dependency mentioned above includes JRE + ImageIO 
and JAI ?  going to try uninstalling and trying again...

Wait there is no way to uninstall ...
Jody