Re: [Viking-devel] Windows - Removing GPSBabel from the Viking Install
That sounds fine; I think gpsbabel should not be included.For packaging systems, it's far better to just make viking depend on gpsbabel than to have an included copy, especially if there are security issues in gpsbabel. I would say that by default on Unix, it makes sense to try $(PREFIX)/bin/gpsbabel, unless some other gpsbabel prefix is set at configure time. pgpyvSIQ8P781.pgp Description: PGP signature -- Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
Re: [Viking-devel] Windows - Removing GPSBabel from the Viking Install
Hi, I'm not a user of the Windows version of viking. But, as far as I know, Windows users are generally less skilled than Linux ones (mostly because unskilled users use the operating system already installed in their computer). I fear that such user will not understand why viking is not working after installation. Can we package an old but already packaged version of gpsbabel? I'm not familiar with the installer used to package viking for Windows. If it's not too difficult, I would suggest to still package gpsbabel within our package, plus an option to disable this component. Doing so, Windows users will be able to install any version of gpsbabel they want, but an unskilled user will have a functionnal version of viking without any effort. Am'I out of topic? 2014-10-05 15:28 GMT+02:00 Robert Norris rw_nor...@hotmail.com: Presently GPSBabel 1.4.4 is packaged with Viking for Windows. I plan to remove GPSBabel from Viking's windows packaging, so the responsibility will be with the user to install it separately. I have code to enable the user to specify an alternate GPSBabel's runtime location. By default Viking will attempt to use the normal locations for GPSBabel's Windows install, so user's shouldn't need to do anything. GPSBabel 1.5 onwards uses Qt libraries internally so the DLL dependencies has changed. It's not overly difficult to continue to distribute this version with Viking, but I believe that should be the responsibility of the user. If there are no reasoned objections to this, I will upload the code and this will be how Viking 1.6 will be packaged for Windows. NB: Being able to specify the location of GPSBabel may also make any MacOS usage easier too. Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/ -- Guilhem BONNEFILLE -=- JID: gu...@im.apinc.org MSN: guilhem_bonnefi...@hotmail.com -=- mailto:guilhem.bonnefi...@gmail.com -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ -- Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
Re: [Viking-devel] Windows - Removing GPSBabel from the Viking Install
I'm not a user of the Windows version of viking. But, as far as I know, Windows users are generally less skilled than Linux ones (mostly because unskilled users use the operating system already installed in their computer). I fear that such user will not understand why viking is not working after installation. Can we package an old but already packaged version of gpsbabel? I'm not familiar with the installer used to package viking for Windows. If it's not too difficult, I would suggest to still package gpsbabel within our package, plus an option to disable this component. I should be able to come up with something: http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Embedding_other_installers Doing so, Windows users will be able to install any version of gpsbabel they want, but an unskilled user will have a functionnal version of viking without any effort. -- Slashdot TV. Videos for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
[Viking-devel] Windows - Removing GPSBabel from the Viking Install
Presently GPSBabel 1.4.4 is packaged with Viking for Windows. I plan to remove GPSBabel from Viking's windows packaging, so the responsibility will be with the user to install it separately. I have code to enable the user to specify an alternate GPSBabel's runtime location. By default Viking will attempt to use the normal locations for GPSBabel's Windows install, so user's shouldn't need to do anything. GPSBabel 1.5 onwards uses Qt libraries internally so the DLL dependencies has changed. It's not overly difficult to continue to distribute this version with Viking, but I believe that should be the responsibility of the user. If there are no reasoned objections to this, I will upload the code and this will be how Viking 1.6 will be packaged for Windows. NB: Being able to specify the location of GPSBabel may also make any MacOS usage easier too. Be Seeing You - Rob. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you. -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk ___ Viking-devel mailing list Viking-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/viking-devel Viking home page: http://viking.sf.net/
