Announce: new GRASS 5 beta4 on Tuesday, 26. October

[Eric G . Miller]

On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > GRASS 5 beta4 is published under GPL:
> > > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
> 
> Yes, I think we are all quite happy (the Baylor team as well!)
> 
> > BTW, I suppose that there is now a good chance to see Grass included
> > in Linux distributions (Debian, RedHat, Suse, etc...).  Is
> > anybody thinking about some more "end-user" package (i.e. binaries
> > + data + tutorial) ?
> Yes, we consider creating "rpm" packages. Perhaps
> 
>  - one source rpm
>  - one Linux binary rpm
>  - one data rpm
> 
> But: No idea to create such packages (and no time). any volunteer
> to help here?
> 
> Markus
> 
 I'd let the distros sort it out. I know there's a Debian maintainer
 working on a 4.2 version *.deb.  Each distro might want to muck with
 the configuration anyway. However, as a bandwidth impaired user, I'd
 appreciate parts of the system being broken up into more manageable
 chunks. For instance, grass-core, grass-addins (SWAT, AGNPS, ANSWERS,
 etc), grass-docs(html,ps,etc..), grass-sample-data. That 20MB file is a
 long download (on a modem) if it succeeds, and many of thoses proggies
 don't seem to compile by default anyway.
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