#1428: WinGRASS + how to deliver Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package (vcredist)? --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Reporter: dhastings | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: blocker | Milestone: 6.4.3 Component: Installation | Version: 6.4.1 Keywords: wingrass | Platform: MSWindows 7 Cpu: x86-64 | --------------------------+------------------------------------------------- Changes (by hamish):
* priority: critical => blocker * milestone: 6.4.4 => 6.4.3 Comment: This hasn't gone away and it can't be ignored -- it's a blocker because it's a license violation to ship non-GPL libraries alongside grass binaries. The MS redistributable dlls must be presented by the nsi installer as independent system libraries. It should be pretty easy, just add an extra "do you want to install these system libraries* from Microsoft?" page in the wingrass install wizard. To be totally clear, it should then download them from the internet the same way that the sample datasets get downloaded. Bonus points for figuring out the regedit key to see if they're already registered, but lacking that just plonking them in the grass binary extras dir as we do now should be better than nothing. [*] these are magic words as far as the license is concerned Hamish -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1428#comment:35> GRASS GIS <http://grass.osgeo.org> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev