[GRASS5] Proposal for a new GRASS directory structure

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 04:19:31PM -0400, Eric Mitchell wrote:
> First, is there is a list of what needs to be done before GRASS-5.0 
> is considered final?  A list of remaining modules to get working? 

Markus hat something similiar to this in mind I think.

> A list of known bugs that needs to be whittled down?  If there isn't
> a solid target to aim for, we'll never hit it.

We should come up with them then.


> As far as reorganizing the source, how would it make sense to split 
> up GRASS? What set of modules would provide a reasonable breakdown 
> of the whole GRASS distribution? grass-base, nviz, nonGPL, etc?  I'd
> recommend reorganizing with that layout in mind.  

We cannot distribute nonGPL stuff with GRASS. Nobody can use it.
Yes, grass-base and then thematic packages would be nice.
nviz is 3D and even has other requirements (OpenGL/Mesa).


> 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.

	Bernhard
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