+1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that necessary... The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty Location(s?) in a directory that the user can choose.
On 30 January 2015 at 15:20, Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> wrote: > On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote: > >> On the MS Windows installer takes care of that by copying demo Location >> to newly created grassdata dir in Documents and creating the rc file. Is >> this enough? If not why? And do we want to do something similar for >> cases when installation is not done by GRASS GIS? If startup detects no >> grassdata it could just create the dir and copy the demo Location there, >> so the only thing needed is to press Start button. >> > > Don't forget that in many GNU/Linux distributions data is separated from > applications in the packaging. So, either we have to tell users to install > a specific data package (e.g. grass-demodata) or the startup screen needs a > button: "Download and unpack demo data". > > Moritz > > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev > -- ----
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