Hi Bob,
That sounds really interesting, and would complement the linux based
packaging that we have been doing the the arramagong Live DVD and
Virtual Machine project.
In particular, we have a build process where any project which can write
a shell install script for an Ubuntu environment will be included on the
Live DVD.
It would now be quite easy to extend that to include a boot from USB
release as well. (You might want to write this).
However, I understand you are targeting windows, and I think that is a
great idea. I suggest building upon the osgeo4w project which is
building projects for windows. Frank Warnerdam can probably point you in
the right direction to get started.
Bob Basques wrote:
>
> All,
>
>
>
> I've been experimenting the last couple of weeks with building out a
> standalone mapping service running from USB. Things are kind of
> gel-ing around portableApps (for windows) so far. I did try other
> combinations of things though, Portable FireFox (from Mozilla) with
> the POW extension, FF (packaged via portableApps) with Apache
> Portable, Full Apache with portable FF, Full Apache with FF from
> PortableApps.
>
>
>
> I finally got FULL Apache to do what I was looking to do. I was
> really wanting the POW extension for FF to be workabale though, since
> it would make portability across OS's much nicer. I may go back and
> hit that again using what I've learned and see if I can still make
> that work. The one click option seems like it might be nicer this
> way, since all the user would need to do is start FF from the USB.
> Database services may be problematic with this approach though, but I
> could build in a controller right into the Browser for this.
>
>
>
> So, where am I at now. PortableApps/XAMPP seems to be the best option
> for Windows which is what I started working on. I intend to attack
> MAC and Linux as well. The end result is to have a standalone mapping
> service start up either automatically after insertion into the USB
> and/or a one click startup, that may, at some future date, also update
> itself from some master services yet to be named. :c)
>
>
>
> bobb
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