I would vote for a lean base installer to be distributed on
grass.itc.it. Other projects can build fatter installers based
on that and distribute them. A bare bones installer will be
much easier to maintain for us in the long run.
Benjamin
Moritz Lennert wrote:
On 16/04/08 10:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glynn,
>I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the
various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you
shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new
version of GRASS is released.
we could do as follows:
1. a *complete*, *first time* GRASS installer, based on latest
release, with all the dependencies built-in
2. and *updater*, installed along the *first installation*, that check
the WinGRASS repository looking for last GRASS updates, and
download/install only the latest updated files (both for GRASS and
dependencies). It would be not an easy work, but I think that I'll can
do it... even if not very soon :-)
This actually sounds much more sophisticated than what Glynn proposed.
Could you not simply propose one installer with only the latest
(complete) GRASS binaries. This installer could check for any existing
installation of GRASS and propose to erase that before installing the
new version, or install the new version next to the old.
The question then is: do we need a "complete" installer with everything
in it (as you suggest), or can we impose the burden of two installers on
people, i.e. as Glynn suggests: one GRASS installer + one Dependencies
installer. I think this would be the best solution for us, but it would
mean that at least for the first installation, users will have to
install two packages. If the GRASS installer could test for the
installation of the other package and propose to download it and lauch
its installation autmagically, then this might be the best solution.
But you're the one doing the work, so the ultimate decision will be
yours ;-)
Moritz
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