[GRASS5] Some questions about joining GRASS development

[Radim Blazek]

Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> Hi there,
> Here are some questions I need answered to make some more progress:
> 
> 1. GUI:
> 
> If so, how does all the GRASS functionality contained in current GIS
> Manager fit into qGIS? What about the Tk runtime forms (I thought they were quite nice)?

I want to work on QGIS again after GRASS 6.0.0 release. I would like to 
add some sort of easy to use GUI for GRASS modules, probably a 
combination  of description generated by module and predefined options 
for each task. Suggestions are welcome.

> b) Is there any way to control how the runtime Tk forms are build by the G_parser() function?
> 
> 
> 2. Make and Install process
> 
> a) Am I right in assuming, that "gmake" has been replaced with a standard "make" process
> and is no longer important?

Yes.

> b) Some of my programs use shared code that I compiled as a library called "gt".
> I have put the lib headers in "include" and the code in "lib/gt" is that
> where it belongs?

Yes.

> c) If I execute "make" in my module's subdir, the binary gets copied into my source tree.
> I would rather have it copied right into the system-wide installation dir in /usr/local.
> Is there a simple way to do it with the local Makefile rather than having to call
> "make inst" from the top level?

I dont think so.


Radim