Hi, 2010/5/10 Hamish <[email protected]>: > * One of our best selling points vs. the competition is that you don't > have to buy expensive addon toolboxes to have it do what you want to do. > * It makes it a lot harder for new users to get started with what they > want to do. Even when done well it's a brittle system dependent on 100% > uptime servers etc. which in practice do not exist.
advanced Tools Manager could help with that, see the minimalistic approach [1]. > * Non-"core" modules will be neglected by the core devs and die from bit > rot. (outside of grep's reach) > * Those "non-core" modules have personally led me into all new ideas and > directions outside of my normal field of study, which has rather positively > affected the direction of my career and let me solve problems in novel ways > for my peers that only cross-discipline tools/perspective could introduce us > to. I am not afraid of that. Core should be minimalistic, the most modules (e.g. v.net.*, etc) could be moved to grass-tools. Most of them will be maintain in the same manner as now, they just live in separate repo. > * Our download size is only about 25ish megs. that's tiny. Docs are bigger > than code. Windows deps "aren't our fault" and switching to a different > distribution model won't help that much at all. > * Rather than focus development I fear it will dilute it. Divided we fall.. > * Big change is big work which could more productively be funneled into > more critical pursuits. (I am not against needed change, but very against > change-for-change's-sake.) The main question is which modules should to moved from grass-addons to trunk. Who will decide, PSC? As reference I can mention modules from GIPE which has been moved to trunk few months ago. Basically, I like the idea of minimalistic repo for libs and core modules which will be maintained carefully to be very stable. And grass-tools with solid and *maintained* modules. The rest in grass-addons. Currently grass-addons contains a mess, you can find very good modules but also unusable rubbish. The user is lost. Martin [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/WxGUI#Extension_Manager -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
