Add a pycsw package

[Jeff McKenna]

• ​http://docs.pycsw.org/en/latest/installation.html#system-requirements
• likely would require including a Python 3.x environment in MS4W

[Jeff McKenna]

From Tanya: An older GeoNode presentation that covers SDI
​http://www.slideshare.net/SebastianBenthall/spatial-data-infrastructure-best-practices-with-geonode

[Jeff McKenna]

Need to examine how to include pycsw's dependencies, as I cannot use externally compiled binaries for this custom build. Some libraries such as OWSLib may just be Python scripts and can be copied directly into the custom Python instance, but others such as lxml library might need to be compiled. Here is part of my old install notes for the pycsw workshop on Windows:

Install pycsw Dependencies
- C:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install.exe lxml==2.2.8
- C:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install.exe pyproj==1.9.2
- C:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install.exe Shapely==1.2.17
- C:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install.exe SQLAlchemy>=0.6
- C:\Python26\Scripts\easy_install.exe OWSLib==0.7.1

[Jeff McKenna]

As an alternative to an sqlite database (to store metadata records), possibly examine "PostgreSQL Portable" ​https://sourceforge.net/projects/postgresqlportable/

[TC Haddad]

Add simple example front end to help folks discover the usefulness of pycsw...

Also, sqlite as a back end is fine for MS4W demo purposes.

[Jeff McKenna]

Added pycsw-master to MS4W-4.0.0-beta1: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w-4.0.0-beta1-setup.exe
(archive: https://ms4w.com/release/experimental/ms4w_4.0.0_beta1.zip)