> > But it might install the same programs twice on the machine and probably > bloat the grass distribution by quite a lot (don't forget that most > people do not have broadband) ...
Yes, that's a fact. > > IMO, we should stick to a basic wingrass distribution to which people > can add what they want in terms of other programs. If they want access > to R, they can add R's bin + lib directories to the path and that's it. True, I was only looking into R to see how easy it would be to add. > > If you have a particular audience that needs a series of add-ons and > tweaks than you can provide a special package for them, but I prefer to > distribute a simple package without any unnecessary additions (and I > consider msys an unnecessary addition in this context as there is hardly > anything you cannot do without scripts - it just might not be as > convienient). Don't assume that everyone has the same needs as you. Yes, I will do that. > > And up to now feedback has been that installation of the wingrass > package is very easy... > > However, I agree that we could maybe provide more detailled > documentation on how to integrate different packages (at least msys). > > Moritz > >> The benefit for the user is that only one .bat is visible in >> the top dir: it's clear what to click on and there is no >> searching in bin grass-6.3.cvs/bin or wherever to find >> a startup-script. > > If the instructions in the readme are not clear enough, please provide > suggestions for improvement. Up to now I have not received any feedback > from users not being able to find how to launch grass. > >> Please keep in mind, that my Windows target users will often not >> have the ability (or patience) to install MSYS by themselves and set >> the appropriate vars in some obscure batch script -- they just >> want to click and run GRASS! > > And so they _can_ with the current distribution, except for the fact > that they have to install ActiveTcl if they want the gui (and the fact > that the instructions need a reference to how to start grass in text > mode). This should be solved by giving the option of downloading a grass > package including a free tcl/tk installation. > > My point above concerning msys being unnecessary is obviously arguable > and if there is a general opinion that we should include it, we can (but > without any need to change the grass63.bat except for uncommenting the > line about where to find sh.exe and another to set the necessary PATH). > > Moritz > > -- Benjamin Ducke, M.A. Archäoinformatik (Archaeoinformation Science) Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (Inst. of Prehistoric and Historic Archaeology) Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel Johanna-Mestorf-Straße 2-6 D 24098 Kiel Germany Tel.: ++49 (0)431 880-3378 / -3379 Fax : ++49 (0)431 880-7300 www.uni-kiel.de/ufg _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@grass.itc.it http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
