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GeoNode is an open source platform that facilitates the creation, sharing, and collaborative use of geospatial data.
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osgeo4w / stand alone windows installer #1039

Closed jj0hns0n closed 8 years ago

jj0hns0n commented 11 years ago

Would be nice to have GeoNode installable via osgeo4w or via a standalone installer based on osgeo4w

capooti commented 10 years ago

Shouldn't we close this, until we do not get a PR for it?

nathanhilbert commented 9 years ago

@jj0hns0n has there been any progress on this? I was going to take a look using NSIS during the sprint.

Some thoughts around the stand-alone install.

jj0hns0n commented 9 years ago

@nathanhilbert not sure if there has been any progress. You should check in with someone like @bmmpxf who should be able to point you in the right direction.

nathanhilbert commented 9 years ago

First dirty dev environment installer for Windows. https://s3.amazonaws.com/geonodedeps/Geonode_Dev_2.4.exe Requires Java and a base Python 2.7 32bit to be installed. Uses an isolated python environment by setting environment variables through batch files. To dos include:

nathanhilbert commented 9 years ago

Curious if anyone has any experience in standalone python installs or portable virtualenvs. See notes below of my approaches so far.

For the Geonode_Dev_2.4.exe it installs a dev environment with a sort of standalone python install. It is stable and you can give it a try. I need a better way of dealing with python. It currently does everything that we need except “pip uninstall” uninstalls from the standalone and “pip install” installs to the base system python install. This could be solved by putting a –target flag on pip install with the absolute path, but that seems annoying. I was playing around with virtualenvs last week using the –relocatable flag, but that didn’t work. I might use the approach of replacing all of the absolute paths in the virtualenv with the current directory, which I have done in the past, but that is not ideal for the build process. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

ingenieroariel commented 9 years ago

I have some experience in portable python envs. What shell are you using? do we have an opportunity to use a custom shell for Django/GeoNode stuff (since we want management commands to work and be able to use pip with the right path). That approach would let us customize the path before launching that shell and perhaps even use one that is friendly for unix users (cd, cat, autocomplete, pipe support).

In any case it is great that you are moving this forward, kudos!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Nathan Hilbert notifications@github.com wrote:

Curious if anyone has any experience in standalone python installs or portable virtualenvs. See notes below of my approaches so far.

For the Geonode_Dev_2.4.exe it installs a dev environment with a sort of standalone python install. It is stable and you can give it a try. I need a better way of dealing with python. It currently does everything that we need except “pip uninstall” uninstalls from the standalone and “pip install” installs to the base system python install. This could be solved by putting a –target flag on pip install with the absolute path, but that seems annoying. I was playing around with virtualenvs last week using the –relocatable flag, but that didn’t work. I might use the approach of replacing all of the absolute paths in the virtualenv with the current directory, which I have done in the past, but that is not ideal for the build process. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/1039#issuecomment-74664612.

ingenieroariel commented 9 years ago

Another question, have you looked into wheels instead of eggs to avoid eggs pitfalls?

http://pythonwheels.com/

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:12 PM, Ariel Nunez ingenieroariel@gmail.com wrote:

I have some experience in portable python envs. What shell are you using? do we have an opportunity to use a custom shell for Django/GeoNode stuff (since we want management commands to work and be able to use pip with the right path). That approach would let us customize the path before launching that shell and perhaps even use one that is friendly for unix users (cd, cat, autocomplete, pipe support).

In any case it is great that you are moving this forward, kudos!

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Nathan Hilbert notifications@github.com wrote:

Curious if anyone has any experience in standalone python installs or portable virtualenvs. See notes below of my approaches so far.

For the Geonode_Dev_2.4.exe it installs a dev environment with a sort of standalone python install. It is stable and you can give it a try. I need a better way of dealing with python. It currently does everything that we need except “pip uninstall” uninstalls from the standalone and “pip install” installs to the base system python install. This could be solved by putting a –target flag on pip install with the absolute path, but that seems annoying. I was playing around with virtualenvs last week using the –relocatable flag, but that didn’t work. I might use the approach of replacing all of the absolute paths in the virtualenv with the current directory, which I have done in the past, but that is not ideal for the build process. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/1039#issuecomment-74664612.

nathanhilbert commented 9 years ago

Yeah started using Wheels: https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/pull/2030 but realized that not every project has wheels https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/issues/2075 in their pypi.

I forgot to mention another direction of initializing a fresh virtualenv and running through the script in a batch script during the Windows install. This is probably the best option, but the most work for my use case.

I'm just using the straight Windows command. I assume you're thinking of something like MinGW for an alternative shell. Although good for development, probably isn't ideal for serving a production application. I think I'm accomplishing the same direction here https://github.com/GeoNode/geonode/blob/master/scripts/ms-install/package/prefix_env.bat

amrabdelaziz91 commented 9 years ago

@nathanhilbert I'm curious to know if Boundless' geoserver can be configured to be used with geonode on windows , It would be really useful.

nathanhilbert commented 9 years ago

@amrabdelaziz91 I'm guessing you're asking because you have Opengeo Suite installed, and want to interface with the existing geoserver. There are some custom libraries for authentication in the GeoNode Geoserver build, so an OpenGeo Suite install of geoserver would not work without these libraries to the best of my knowledge.