[GRASS5] Re: GRASS 5.3 windows

Markus Neteler neteler at itc.it
Wed Jun 30 04:21:42 EDT 2004


On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:19:07AM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> 
> > > How is the space distributed? Normally, almost all of it should be
> > > accounted for by the etc/bin/cmd directory. If the bin directory is
> > > significant, that suggests that it contains copies of etc/front.end
> > > rather than links.
> > 
> > BTW: Couldn't we go for soft links instead of hard links?
> 
> I've changed it in CVS (5.3).

So I have changed it for 5.7 as well.
 
> > At least for common platforms?
> 
> Anything which doesn't support symlinks either:
> 
> a) won't support hard links either, or
> 
> b) is so ancient that there are plenty of other reasons why GRASS
> wouldn't work on it.

I agree.

Markus




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