[GRASS5] GRASS extension manager proposal

[Radim Blazek]

Paul Kelly wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
> 
>> OK, it seems everybody agrees that it is a good idea.
>> I will try and write a small g.install prototype
>> (that would also include the management of binary
>> and script installations)
> 
> 
> I think rather than having pre-compiled binaries for lots of different 
> platforms sitting around somewhere, g.install should just download the 
> source code from somewhere and compile it on the target machine. With 
> the shared libraries now included with GRASS, I believe the only extra 
> thing needed for this to be possible is to include all the GRASS header 
> files in the binary distributions (so people can compile extra modules 
> without having to download the whole GRASS source distribution).

I agree, binary distribution doesn't make sense.

We have to add include/Make to binary distribution. GRASS_HOME in 
Platform.make must be changed when binary is installed.

Radim