Hi Moritz, (warming this post up again ...).
I see your point! And I am aware, that dependencies might be changed in development versions. QGIS has some nightly builds e.g. with ubuntugis dependencies. Maybe snap could be useful? There does not seem to be a snap for GRASS yet: https://snapcraft.io/search?q=grass If you guys think this is of interest, I could have a look at it in Bonn (and maybe join forces with QGIS project if the relevant people for the QGIS snap [1,2] are in Bonn too). I would also consider contributing to packaging, but I have no experience with that. So, maybe Martin (as we are on Ubuntu), we can have a short chat in Bonn to see if I can be of help there... Looking forward to seeing you in Bonn! Cheers Stefan 1: https://github.com/Wollac/snap-qgis 2: https://github.com/elopio/QGIS/blob/snapcraft/snapcraft.yaml -----Original Message----- From: Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlenn...@club.worldonline.be] Sent: torsdag 14. desember 2017 15.59 > I think Stefan means distribution packages. > Theoretically this is possible. One could create a specific "grass-trunk" > package which is packaged in a way to not conflict with the official stable > grass version. > However, I think most distribution packagers are already very busy just > handling the stable packages. The difficulty with creating such a grass-trunk > package would be that it would have to be repackaged regularly (daily), > but this means that whoever used it would have to have exactly the same > versions of dependecy packages installed on their machine as on the package > build machine. > And then, which distribution and which version of a distribution should we > make packages for ? > In summary: if you are willing to create such a package against a clearly > defined version of a distribution than this would be great, but I don't think > you can count on either the core developers of GRASS, nor the packagers of > different distributions for doing this. > Moritz _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list grass-user@lists.osgeo.org https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
