On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote: > > Markus Neteler wrote: > >> Time to backport the GRASS 7 build system to GRASS 6? How complicated >> to you expect that to be? > > Not very complicated; you just have to abandon support for shell > scripts (the 7.0 build system only supports Python scripts). > > Supporting both Python scripts and shell scripts in the same build > system would be complicated, which is why I gave up trying for 7.0.
This sounds like a showstopper for GRASS 6. > There are some other things in 6.x which the 7.0 build system doesn't > support. E.g. r.terraflow only supports float; having both short and > float versions built from the same source code was too complicated, so > that feature was removed. That sounds ok to me. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
