[GRASS5] Re: Windows grass binaries / GRASS branching

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 04:01:13PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hello Markus
> On Fri, 26 May 2000, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > The only problem is the
> > src/CMD/lists/GRASS which is parsed for compilation. Either
> > we have to hold two lists (stable/unstable) or the compile
> > mechanism needs to be modified to 
> > 
> >  1. ignore non-existing modules (as they might not have been checked
> >     out if the stable version was acquired)
> >  2. ignore compile errors and proceed, maybe collecting the
> >     names of uncompiled modules in a log file.
> > 
> > Especially 2. would be of general interest, I think.
> > If 1. is there, we could modularize the GRASS in a first approach
> > into smaller, topic-oriented packages. 
> > 
> > In fact the best solution would be that the compile script collects 
> > the *existing modules* first, then we would get rid of the
> > src/CMD/lists/GRASS.
> 
> I am not confident in shell programming, but I can easily write a perl
> script that can detrmine all exisiting modules if there is a way to
> determine if a directory is a module. Maybe the existance of an empty file
> called "moduleDir" or something.
Usually it should be enough to search for the top directory.
But we have structures like the "src.contrib" etc. Here either
we use your suggestion and add such a file or re-organize the
structure.
Further suggestion/opinions are welcome.

Best wishes

 Markus

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