From time to time I download uDig and give it whirl. Looks very promising.
I tried RC9 today and two things I noticed: 1) If I download and unzip everything into /opt/udig as root and then run uDig as an ordinary user, it dies with JVM error code=13. Apparently uDig needs write access to its installation directory in order to work. That makes no sense in a Linux environment where app directories are generally not touched by users. 2) Running uDig will completely hose your existing eclipse environment. I use eclipse for other programming projects and after running uDig, I loose all my setting. Perspectives created by installed plugins disappear (lots of 'cannot restore perspective' errors). This has happened to me (today) when trying the all-in-one download and previously when I've tried to run it without downloading all the bundled Eclipse/JVM bits. Needless to say, this is exceedingly annoying. Any tips on getting uDig to coexist with eclipse for other uses? THK -- Timothy H. Keitt, University of Texas at Austin Contact info and schedule at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/ Reprints at http://www.keittlab.org/tkeitt/papers/ ODF attachment? See http://www.openoffice.org/ _______________________________________________ User-friendly Desktop Internet GIS (uDig) http://udig.refractions.net http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/udig-devel
