[GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.2.0beta2 published

[William Kyngesburye]

I have a Mac OS X app available for download now for 6.2b2 (and also  
for today's 6.3 snapshot).

http://www.kyngchaos.com/

I added a build template similar to GEM for building addon modules.   
It doesn't require the module to be setup for GEM by the author (I  
didn't see any that were in the few that I looked at), but only an  
easy change to the module's makefile.  It doesn't have a registry or  
add the module to the GUI menus.  Just a quick-n-dirty hack for now -  
I'm not trying to replace GEM.

There is also an Application Support configuration for adding the  
modules so the app package doesn't need to be changed.

This brings me to a point about extending GRASS in a Mac  
environment.  An installed application should not be changed, and for  
an unprivileged user it probably _can't_ be changed (goes for other  
OS's also).  Also, with drag-n-drop installs and updates, one can  
easily forget and wipe out addons in the app package.  GRASS needs  
more support for external configuration and expansion.

Module binaries are easily handled by the GRASS_ADDON_PATH env.   
Modules that have their own libraries can use DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH (or  
LD_LIBRARY_PATH) to point to an external library location.  What is  
missing is how to integrate extra documentation from an external  
location, and how to handle GUI extras like adding the modules to  
menus without changing the base menus.  Module etc/ stuff could also  
be a problem.

... Something to think about.  I'll probably add something to the  
GRASS 7 Idea page.

On Aug 30, 2006, at 5:29 PM, Markus Neteler wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I have put online the next beta at
> http://grass.itc.it/grass62/source/
>
> Please test!
>
> The changes are listed here:
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_6.2_Feature_Plan
>
> Thanks,
> Markus
>

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William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com>
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http://www.kyngchaos.com/

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