[GRASS5] GRASS extension manager proposal

[Radim Blazek]

Roger Bivand wrote:
>>why bother with g.install and just put it all in GRASS CVS?
> 
> Because, as Benjamin and others (especially Paolo Cavallini) have
> suggested, a development model with add-in modules is vastly more robust
> that one in which everything is in the same tarball. Central servicies
> need to be in the core distribution, but everything else should be
> modularised. They can be stored on a central CVS repository, but do not
> need to be in the same project, just to follow the same installation
> rules. 

I agree. I prefer an archive where everybody can add packages. It is not 
realistic, to create CVS account for every student who writes a script.

This is certainly good starting point:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton/grass_scripts.htm


Radim