[udig-devel] An installer for OSX to try out

[Jesse Eichar]

I also made a quick experiment to make a plugin for jai.  It was a  
standalone plugin.  Given a few days or a week I might be able to get  
it to work.  But then again maybe not.  So installer it is.

I personally don't think the installer is so ugly however we do need  
to identify the real bad parts and try to fix them.  If there is a  
translation problem I think that I can override the defaults with my  
own.  So let me know what needs to be fixed and I will change the  
translation.

Jesse

On 29-Apr-08, at 11:58 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

> Jesse Eichar wrote:
>> The JAI/Image IO stuff is exactly the reason that we need the  
>> installer.  Geotiff support requires a version of Image IO that is  
>> not shipped with the java available on the OSX.  I could try to  
>> make a eclipse fragment that adds the Image IO to libs...  But I  
>> don't know if it would be picked up correctly or not...
> I tried getting that to work for MRSID support on trunk; after 3  
> days (and a lot of trouble) I found the only thing that worked as to  
> place the files into the JRE extensions.
>> I suppose I could try that though and see if it works.  I am  
>> worried about a little about version hell.  I know that OSX does  
>> the right thing when the jai stuff is put in ~/Library/Java/ 
>> Extensions.
> I know the fragment approach does not work for Windows (strictly  
> speaking it *does* work since that is how SWT functions); The  
> problem here is we are expecting the Java BootClasspath ImageIO  
> install to "find" our contributions we are placing in via a  
> fragment, since it is this ImageIO code that is supposed to be  
> finding us (using FactorySPI) we are a long ways away, and in a  
> different classloader, from where we need to be.
>
> What you could try is setting up a eclipse plug-in to hold the  
> classpath based install of JAI / ImageIO extention / ImageIO-ext  
> stuff.
>
> In for a penny in for a pound ... and this problem has pounded me  
> previously.
> Jody
>>
>>
>> On 29-Apr-08, at 9:13 PM, Tore Halset wrote:
>>
>>> Hello.
>>>
>>> I just tried the installer. It worked, but I have some comments.
>>>
>>> Why do we need an installer on OS X? Does the installer need to  
>>> install something in some other place? I am pretty happy about  
>>> download a zip or dmg and just drag the application to where I  
>>> want it. And then just delete application when I want to remove it.
>>>
>>> Does JAI stuff need to be installed in .../Java/Extensions? I  
>>> think it would be cleaner to keep it inside the uDig directory and  
>>> alter the classpath or whatever to include it.
>>>
>>> In the "Select Installation Packages" view, I clicked one of the 3  
>>> lines. It worked, but is was kind of non-macish that the small  
>>> window with the 3 lines got even smaller. See the attached  
>>> screenshot.
>>
>>
>> I guess my description for the JAI/Image IO is too long.  I agree  
>> that is a really ugly effect.
>>
>>
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