I have setup a user supportfolder location for this, for two reasons
actually - one as you mention to avoid overwriting extras with
updates, but also because non-admin users won't be able to put stuff
in the GRASS.app bundle (and that's just wrong anyways in OSX).
See the OSX GRASS readme for details (it currently installs in /Users/
Shared), but here is a summary:
Global addons (available to all users on the Mac) should be put in
/Library/GRASS/$GRASSVERSION/Modules
$GRASSVERSION is simply the major.minor GRASS version. There are
subfolders for the usual bin/lib/etc. Of course, you also need admin
privileges to do this.
User addons should be put in
~/Library/GRASS/$GRASSVERSION/Modules
Neither of these will get stomped by an update. The global support
folder is created by the installer, the user folder when GRASS starts.
On my list to do is add some info to the GRASS wiki, but for now it's
all in the readme.
On Sep 4, 2007, at 5:22 PM, Brandon M. Gabler wrote:
Since we're on this topic, I need to ask a question about updating
using Kyng's 6.3 builds on OSX. Say I have a version of 6.3 from
Kyngesburye installed. Then I add additional scripts to the
package. Then Kyng releases a new build with upgraded features from
the newest 6.3cvs. How do I then upgrade the build without losing
the scripts that I added? I imagine I would need to compile from
source and then do a cvs update, similar to what I've seen done on
linux machines, but I am unfamiliar with how I would do that
properly on my mac. So for all of us GRASS OSX users out there, how
do we keep the most up-to-date features of GRASS without losing
addons?
Thanks,
Brandon
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