Fully agreed! Main advantage I would see with snap is that it is supposed to be distro independent and that it possibly is easier with packages for different GRASS versions in parallel (again I do not have any experience with packaging).
Cheers, Stefan ________________________________ From: Moritz Lennert <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 10:06:57 AM To: Stefan Blumentrath; Markus Neteler Cc: GRASS user list Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] Install GRASS stable and experimental in parallel On 13/03/18 09:30, Stefan Blumentrath wrote: > 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 didn't know snap, but somehow, I have the feeling that with Docker, snap, etc we are going back to a world where each software package installs each of its dependencies separately, leading to the same library being installed multiple times on one machine. I guess cheap disk space and containerization makes this a bit less of a problem, but it still just does not feel right when you come from the beautiful world of coordinated packaging in Debian and others distros. :-) Moritz
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