Hi Jeshua, 

To help me understand, I have a couple of questions below.


> On Feb 22, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Jeshua Lacock <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Feb 22, 2015, at 8:50 PM, Michael Barton <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I don't know why Jeshua wrote to you since I maintain the wikidot site.
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> To be clear, I didn’t write to William, I wrote to the list to which he 
> replied.
> 
>> As for the other issues, I'll respond
>> 
>> 1. There IS a link to the Kyngchaos frameworks page in the menu on the right 
>> side that shows up on every page. On that frameworks page, it is clearly 
>> stated that PROJ and UnixImageIO are a part of the GDAL Complete package
>> 
>> 2. AFAIK, the order of installing the main frameworks packages makes no 
>> difference. The ones for which order matters are included in GDAL Complete. 
>> If I am wrong here, please let me know and I will put a note on the site.
> 
> On the main download page it does not state anything about installation 
> order. I did not install GDAL first. Then I got several other errors. If it 
> happened to me, I can only assume it will happen to others.

Do you mean you had problems because you installed GRASS before the frameworks 
or because you installed other frameworks before GDAL Complete?

> 
> I am just throwing out a couple super simple steps that might make ones 
> experience more pleasant - or with the permissions issue keep them from being 
> able to use it at all.
> 
>> 3. No one has ever reported this permissions issue so far. I don't know what 
>> is causing it in this case (unless it is new for 7.0 stable).  AFAIK, the 
>> only permissions issue is the need to have a writeable director called "bin" 
>> inside the GRASS folder if you are installing extensions. This is a weird 
>> quirk of the extensions build system on the Mac. If there is a new 
>> permissions issue for 7.0 stable, it needs to be reported. But I have built 
>> it in exactly the same way as I've built all other builds recently.
> 
> It has actually happened with the betas for me I just neglected to report it. 
> As it is, the package leaves a folder that the user will not have permission 
> to access. This should not be a difficult thing to reproduce or fix. I would 
> suspect that the folder is owned by root because root permissions are 
> required to install, and you likely just need to clean up the permissions as 
> I suggested.

It does not require root access to install, just administrator access. Which is 
the folder lacking permissions? /Applications/GRASS? Is this perhaps a function 
of the new "feature" in OSX that puts roadblocks for running things not 
downloaded from the app store?

Michael

> 
> Good news is your package can be fixed without even rebuilding the package - 
> just take a look at the postflight script.
> 
> 
> Best,
> 
> Jeshua Lacock
> Founder/Engineer
> 3DTOPO Incorporated
> <http://3DTOPO.com>
> Phone: 208.462.4171


Michael
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