Hi, 2011/1/12 Michael Barton <[email protected]>: > 1) Installing these over Linux is a different thing than installing them in > Windows or on the Mac. I haven't tested the extension module recently (i.e., > last 6 months), but it didn't work for Mac and I don't know if it has worked > reliably for Windows. Also note that on the Mac, you cannot compile things > unless you install the Developer Tools, something most people don't install > (or even know about) by default. To make separate and smoothly installable > packages of optional tools, we would need to maintain them in binary form for > users to install from somewhere. Something that works as smoothly as FireFox > extensions is what we should aim for. Even OpenOffice extensions sometime > have installation bombs.
sure, first step is to make g.extension solid... > 2) There is not yet any consensus on what constitutes "core" tools. We need > to have a discussion that goes beyond the developer group on this. What the > developers think are core might not be to a larger user base. Feel free to discuss at http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_repository_layout_proposal Martin -- Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
