[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-PSC] difficult to get GRASS source code package

[Vaclav Petras]

Hi Michael,

This looks more like a grass-dev topic, than grass-psc. I'm adding
grass-dev, please remove grass-psc when (if) you reply.

I'll let others comment on the tarball and website and comment on the Git
and GitHub part. +1 for Nickals' answer.

Git is definitely a valid way of getting source code for a build and
perhaps a preferred one since there is all the extra metadata for files.
Maybe we should work on clarifying whether that's really the preferred way.

When using Git locally, you need to be careful if you are using your fork
or the upstream, OSGeo repo. If you do a new clone from GitHub, it should
be pretty clear what you used.

Clone by default gets the default branch which is main, so you need to
switch to another branch (`git switch` in modern Git, `git checkout` in old
Git):

git switch releasebranch_8_0
git switch --detach 8.0.0

git checkout releasebranch_8_0
git checkout 8.0.0

When we one does repetitive clones (e.g., in CI), you can do a shallow
clone with --branch (which works for tags too) to get just one given state
of the repo:

git clone --depth 1 --branch releasebranch_8_0
git clone --depth 1 --branch 8.0.0

When using GitHub, the link Download ZIP which is under the green Clone
button respects the current branch which you set using the combo-box at the
right side or using the "8 branches" link. You can get, e.g.,

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/archive/refs/heads/releasebranch_8_0.zip

On top of what Nicklas said about the release, you can also use the "124
tags" link which takes you to an overview page with links for all tags
(==releases in our case).

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags

Best,
Vaclav

On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 11:16, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:

> I stand corrected. I am not sure that I have the current 8.0 stable
> release. Cloning gives me the main repository, not 8.0.0 stable. I can
> check out a branch but need to make sure that I've got the stable release
> 8.0.0. The reason is that I'm trying to package this in sync with other
> platforms. It looks like the 8.0.0 branch was updated recently. So it is
> not the fixed stable release of 17 days ago.
>
> Michael
> _____________________________
>
> C. Michael Barton
> Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (
> https://scas.asu.edu)
> Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (
> https://shesc.asu.edu)
> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (
> https://complexity.asu.edu)
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
> USA
>
> Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (
> https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io)
> Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological
> Sciences (https://comses.net)
>
> personal website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>
>
> On Feb 14, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> This sounds a bit weird, but with some recent changes to the GRASS
> website, it has become more difficult to find and download a current stable
> release.
>
> I went to find a tar/zip package of GRASS 8.0.0 source code to build and
> could not find one from the web site. The links all lead only to the GitHub
> repository. This is fine for people who want dev versions. But I would
> think that some people just want the package. I eventually cloned one from
> GitHub, but even there, it is not transparent how to get the stable release
> vs. an updated version. Even on GitHub, the clone/download button seemed to
> be missing.
>
> While I could get the software, it seems like we should put back in a link
> to the source code packages somewhere.
>
> Michael
> _____________________________
>
> C. Michael Barton
> Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (
> https://scas.asu.edu)
> Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (
> https://shesc.asu.edu)
> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (
> https://complexity.asu.edu)
> Arizona State University
> Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
> USA
>
> Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (
> https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io)
> Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological
> Sciences (https://comses.net)
>
> personal website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
>
>
>
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