[GRASS-dev] GEM Wizard question

[Jachym Cepicky]

Hi,

imho something like GRASS_ADDONS (so GRASS_GEM) path would solve this.


And it is IMHO another reason for $HOME/.grass/ configuration directory

Jachym

William Kyngesburye píše v Po 21. 05. 2007 v 15:27 -0500:
> I've been meaning to ask about this root/external mod issue - is  
> there any plan to support installation of GEM modules in a user dir?   
> More than just a problem of HOW to run this as root in the GUI, it's  
> also a bit of a security problem and a platform standardization issue.
> 
> On OSX, installing extras into an application binary is not the way  
> things are done.  They should be installed in a standard plugin/ 
> extension location for the application - /Library so it is globally  
> available to users, or ~/Library to make it available only for a  
> single user.
> 
> These locations act as extra GIS_BASEs, in effect - they have bin,  
> lib, etc, doc... subfolders.  By use of standard GRASS env vars, they  
> are easily included into the GRASS environment, and I recently added  
> similar env vars and functions to locate external etc/ support files  
> for modules that need it.
> 
> For the OSX application build I've set [~]/Library/GRASS/$version/ 
> Modules as the global/user locations.  For now I have a separate  
> module build template, much like GEM, but built modules must then be  
> manually copied to one of these locations, since I'm too lazy to  
> figure out alternate install targets in the makefiles.
> 
> It would be nice to have GEM able to install in these locations at  
> least, if not also arbitrary locations.  We would need to figure out  
> good standard locations for other platforms also.
> 
> 
> On May 21, 2007, at 5:53 AM, Maris Nartiss wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm not following GEM development and thus have two silly questions:
> > 1) isn't possible to install additional modules via GEM into user's
> > home directory (as option)? Thus it could be made as easy as
> > installing some addons to Firefox.
> > 2) if getting superuser support for GUI right is lot of work, could
> > some GUI wizard just generate some commandline expression that could
> > be just pasted into terminal by user as last step to run it via su or
> > sudo?
> >
> > Just my 0.02.
> > Maris.
> >
> >
> > 2007/5/21, Benjamin Ducke <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>:
> >> I guess it wouldn't be too much trouble. GEM already has all that's
> >> needed for this: zipped extension packages can be downloaded (using
> >> wget), unzipped (to system's temp dir) and installed automatically.
> >> There is just one catch: since all files are installed into system- 
> >> wide
> >> locations, the wizard will probably need superuser rights. So a  
> >> tcl/tk
> >> based install wizard needs to provide a way to get the superuser
> >> password and run system commands with elevated rights.
> 
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