On Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 23:47:27 Hamish wrote: > Martin Wegmann wrote: > > I am planning to add some landscape ecology/spatial pattern > > analysis modules > > to the GRASS svn addon repository but while looking at the > > addon repository I > > got a bit confused about the variation in folder topics. > > > > I thought that only folders concerning addons exist and > > that they are split up > > into thematic groups (folders), however various other > > topics (e.g. flyer) exist as well. > > maybe flyer should go into a "propoganda" subdir or so, but for > the most part I don't think it is so bad. > > in future we will eventually have to move the grass6 raster/vect > etc dirs into a grass6/ subdir which will clean up the root a > lot. > > if your modules are part of a suite my recommendation would be > to add them as e.g. raster/toolboxname/r.modulename/ > if they stand on their own add them as individual modules, > raster/r.modulename/
thanks Hamish for clarifying this - I will add the suite to raster/... > > I don't know if there have been already some discussions > > concerning the addon repository structure, if not: > > I would suggest first to move all non-addon folder to > > a new folder e.g. "non_code", then add a folder for each > > topic e.g. > > "classification", "hydrology" etc. and move the respective > > addons into these folders. > > it is a bit of a pain to move things as it breaks everyone's > URLs and g.extension hints. ok, I wasn't aware of this problem, especially g.extension > > Additionally I would suggest a html addon-overview > > page with a short > > description of the general aim and the specific modules. > > see the Addons page on the wiki. Now that's where I think we > could use a much better hierarchical design as it has grown > to over 100 modules. Maybe put grass5, raster, vector on > their own pages, then split by ==Heading== within those raster/ > vector pages? ok - I'll add it to this page as well > > I apologize if there have been already some > > discussions/decisions concerning > > this topic, I was just a bit expecting a R-like addon > > structure, with overview, topics etc. > > topics could also be centered around the wiki Applications pages. > > I'm not more than a somewhat ignorant casual user of it, but > usually I have to call on Google to navigate CRAN effectively, > fwtw... that is right, most often I search CRAN via google - but a very good starting point is also this webpage http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ which would be nice for a GRASS addone overview as well, especially if the number of extensions increase further. regards, Martin > > > regards, > Hamish > -- Dr. Martin Wegmann University of Wuerzburg Institute of Geography Department of Remote Sensing Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Research Am Hubland 97074 Wuerzburg, Germany @ German Aerospace Center (DLR) German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) Phone: +49-(0)931-31-83446 Fax: +49-(0)931-888-4961 Email: [email protected] url: http://www.remote-sensing.uni-wuerzburg.de url: http://www.dlr.de/caf _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
