Ian wrote: > I'm also hoping to get a Python library called Iris added for > use in one of the Workshops (Big Data: The Challenges Presented > by WCS 2.0 - http://2013.foss4g.org/provisional/workshops.html > ). I'm subscribed to the live-demo list and will get started > with the alpha release.
Hi Ian, this one, right? http://scitools.org.uk/iris/ it should not be hard to write an install script to do that to sit along side our other install scripts in bin/. It is preferred to install Python things as .deb packages rather than to use 'python setup.py install' or something like easy_install, and thus risk multiple versions quietly overwriting each other, causing collateral damage, and other mess. For python tarballs this is actually very easy to do. For example: # create a .deb package of a python lib # https://pypi.python.org/pypi/stdeb#examples sudo apt-get install python-stdeb # first prepare the debian build rules and source package: mkdir deb && cd deb && cp ../geographiclib-1.30.tar.gz . py2dsc geographiclib-1.30.tar.gz cd .. tar czf geographiclib-1.30_deb_src.tgz deb/ # next send the source package out to any modern debian or ubuntu: scp geographiclib-1.30_deb_src.tgz remote_node: # then build locally on that machine, cd deb_dist/geographiclib-1.30/ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -us cd .. mv python-geographiclib_1.30-1_all.deb python-geographiclib_1.30-1_precise.deb # and install it sudo dpkg -i python-geographiclib_1.30-1_precise.deb the only trouble I see is that the Iris package is 25mb compressed, and our space is very tight. Is it including some sample data or developer documentation which might be hosted online instead of the live disc? We have a facility for that with a link from the Desktop: http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/wiki/Live_GIS_Workshop_Install fwiw, support for shared libs in MB-System looks like it will be ready in time, so that will free up 100+ MB of space, but perhaps not enough to get us back to our 3.2GB target for the mini ISO. regards, Hamish _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://live.osgeo.org http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
