Re: GIS Update [Was: Re: Progress with ParaGUI]

[Eric McDonald <mcdonald at phy dot cmich dot edu>]

D. Cooper Stevenson wrote:

> > There is going to be a delay. I just had a rather serious mishap with
> > the uninstaller. Don't ask.
>
>
> That's the worst! :)

Well, if I had shipped the installer without testing the uninstaller, 
then things could have been much worse. There would have been a lynch 
mob formed out of any MinGW32 users who had used the uninstaller.

I copied the installer script that I made for Xconq, and edited it for 
ParaGUI. Problem is that I forgot to remove:
  RMDir /r $INSTPATH
and with the ParaGUI installer, the default install path is "C:\MinGW" 
rather than, say, "C:\Program Files\Xconq".

Fortunately, I still had all the installer and tarballs for my MinGW32 
installation on hand, and so I was able to reverse the damage in about 
45 minutes after the "incident". But then, I decided to go to bed.

> Here's the original landcover image I'm working with (review again):
>
>   http://wiki.xconqgis.org/images/grass_tutorial/screen12.jpg
>
> Here's what I have currently in Xconq:
>
>   http://wiki.xconqgis.org/images/gis_to_xconq.jpg

That definitely looks like progress. Good work.

> It's important to note that the Xconq map was automatically created 
> exclusively with my script.  

This is good.

> Kind of like an Xconq map vending machine.

:-)

> Documentation/script here (edit the page text to have the script display 
> correctly):
>
>   http://wiki.xconqgis.org/admin.php?CreatingTerrainScript

FYI, it is asking for an username/password. Might make things difficult 
to view for those who don't have edit privs....

  Regards,
     Eric