[GRASS-dev] GEM Wizard question

[William Kyngesburye]

On May 21, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Jachym Cepicky wrote:

> Hi,
>
> imho something like GRASS_ADDONS (so GRASS_GEM) path would solve this.
>
Right now, my etc/ find uses GRASS_ADDON_ETC.  It might be nice to  
consolidate the various env vars.  Assuming that they all always  
coincide with the same root.

> And it is IMHO another reason for $HOME/.grass/ configuration  
> directory
>
> Jachym
>
> William Kyngesburye píše v Po 21. 05. 2007 v 15:27 -0500:
>> I've been meaning to ask about this root/external mod issue - is
>> there any plan to support installation of GEM modules in a user dir?
>> More than just a problem of HOW to run this as root in the GUI, it's
>> also a bit of a security problem and a platform standardization  
>> issue.
>>
>> On OSX, installing extras into an application binary is not the way
>> things are done.  They should be installed in a standard plugin/
>> extension location for the application - /Library so it is globally
>> available to users, or ~/Library to make it available only for a
>> single user.
>>
>> These locations act as extra GIS_BASEs, in effect - they have bin,
>> lib, etc, doc... subfolders.  By use of standard GRASS env vars, they
>> are easily included into the GRASS environment, and I recently added
>> similar env vars and functions to locate external etc/ support files
>> for modules that need it.
>>
>> For the OSX application build I've set [~]/Library/GRASS/$version/
>> Modules as the global/user locations.  For now I have a separate
>> module build template, much like GEM, but built modules must then be
>> manually copied to one of these locations, since I'm too lazy to
>> figure out alternate install targets in the makefiles.
>>
>> It would be nice to have GEM able to install in these locations at
>> least, if not also arbitrary locations.  We would need to figure out
>> good standard locations for other platforms also.

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