Making more windows dev friendly

[rowanwins]

Hi there,

I was just wondering if you'd be open to pull request to make this repo a bit more friendly for windows developers.

For example the shell script for setup_data has some calls to wget which isn't windows-friendly, although we could replace this with node-wget script. Even a shell script itself isn't ideal...

Also on clone and npm install I get errors around rm so we could possibly look at something like shelljs.

Any objections?

[constantinius]

Hi @rowanwins

This is a good idea, thanks for moving forward on this. In my office we don't have many developers working on windows, so this did not yet come up.
Your approach is reasonable and I'll review your PR as soon as possible.

Thanks

[rowanwins]

Urgh I've battled for several hours and tried various approaches but for the life of me I can't get the rgb2pct script to run other than via the OSGeo4W shell :(

Another possibility would be to create a separate repo with all those tiff's and then just pull them all down via wget or equivalent. Perhaps then have two scripts, one pretty much as existing for mac folks, and another for windows which does the wget approach of getting those tiff's that are required.

[yogesh4mantlelabs]

Just a work around for windows user (until windows script is created), You can install Git on windows and there is something called as "Git bash". It gives basic commands of linux to be executed on windows, like rm or mkdir..etc.