[GRASS5] Proposal for a new GRASS directory structure

[Eric Mitchell]

Bernhard Reiter wrote:

> Yes, grass-base and then thematic packages would be nice.
> nviz is 3D and even has other requirements (OpenGL/Mesa).

What other thematic packages would make sense?  I'm not 
really a GIS whiz, I just like making maps of places I've
hauled my consumer grade GPS receiver with me. =)  The
trick is acheiving a reasonable balance between one source
tarball with everything, and one source module for each 
binary.  I'm not sure where to draw a reasonable lines 
between those two extremes.

> > My recommendation
> > for dealing with the reorganization in the CVS repo, is to declare
> > the current tree dead, and reimport the source in the reorganized
> > layout somewhere new in the repository.  You can still get the old
> > information if necessary, but moving files around a cvs repository
> > tends to be a pain.
> 
> This might work. But this is also the time to do a more radical
> cleanup and we can only do that on the development tree.
> Even major source code reorganisation should IMO not done in a beta
> phase of a project.

When I speak of reimporting the source as a new tree, I don't mean 
reorganizing the development branch.  I mean declare all branches
in the current source base "dead", and create a new cvs module, say
"grass-reorg" (aliased to "grass", of course) that is organized 
with everything in the right and proper place.  Under that top 
level module, could be modules corresponding to the various thematic 
packages for ease of making tarball releases.  That way, if you 
check out "grass", you get everything, but you could still just
check out "grass-base" and "grass-nviz" if that's all you needed.

>         Bernhard

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