Hi, 2012/10/30 Benjamin Ducke <[email protected]>: > What's the difference between having 300 or 500 > modules in the base distribution? GRASS has the > file layout required to scale up to this size > easily, and each individual module is small and > lean. Even if we were to triple the number of > modules in the base distribution, the download > size would not increase significantly (and vice > versa).
btw, see a new toolbox-like proposal by Soeren from Prague's Community Sprint [1]. > - Having to compile add-ons written in C/C++ is a > big obstace, g.extension or not, for many users, > especially on Windows. why? There are pre-compiled binaries. No problem to install addons on Windows. [...] > So I am not convinced about the merits of breaking > the GRASS distribution into smaller pieces and add-ons. > Instead, I would say the base distribution should grow > as required and include new, useful modules such as r.modis. I am not against including r.modis into trunk. I just wanted to express my option that there were several modules in the past added to the trunk which probably should stay in addons. Martin [1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Toolboxes -- 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
