[GRASS5] GRASS 5.0.0 to be released now

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 06:44:05PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
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> Markus Neteler wrote:
> | Hi,
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> | before moving the packages onto the GRASS web site
> | I were glad if some people could take another look
> | at the new packages:
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> | http://mpa.itc.it/markus/grass5.0.0/
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> | grass5.0.0_i686-pc-linux-gnu_bin.tar.gz
> | grass5.0.0_src.tar.gz
> | nviz_postgresql_i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
> | pngdriver24_i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
> |
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> Is the source-tarball final enough to go into Mandrake contribs
> (currently has pre5)?

yes, we won't change anything. I just want to know if my
packaging was correct (not to miss files or whatever could
happen).

> I don't think there is much time for me to work on
> this (less than a week), so I would prefer ont to package if it's not
> final, Mandrake is frozen solid (release manager approval for apps in
> main), but contribs not quite yet. And I may just be able to squeeze gd2 in.

Good.
 
> Also, what is the issue with nviz vs postgres? Atm, I am compiling the
> Mandrake grass package with everything (nviz, pg, odbc, blas, lapack etc).

The standard package should have NVIZ without postgres. But I have compiled
an extra package (see above) only containing NVIZ with postgres support.

Regards

 Markus