[GRASS-dev] v.in.dwg: status in GRASS 6.2.2, DWGdirect, etc.

[brush]

dear allies,

i'm a relative newcomer to GRASS, so i appreciate your indulgence of any
mistakes i make.  i've searched the web pretty extensively, and come to
the conclusion (though it's a bit opaque), based on documents dating
from between 2003 and 2005, that this is the status of importing DWG
data into GRASS:

1. v.in.dwg is the only module available

2. it can only be used by compiling from source

3. one has to use the old OpenDWG Toolkit, rather than the actively
maintained DWGDirect, either of which require becoming an associate
member of OpenDesign Alliance by faxing a contract (no $$)

4. the approach is to unarchive the Toolkit into a folder, and then to
run ./configure like so:

   ./configure \
   ... \
   --with-opendwg \
   --with-opendwg-includes=/home/usr1/opendwg27 \
   --with-opendwg-libs=/home/usr1/opendwg27

5. and then to compile GRASS from scratch

is this correct?  will this process work with 6.2.2?  is there any
movement on using DWGDirect, which is the only way to be compatible with
more recent versions of AutoCAD?

thanks so much!
.brush