R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released

[marco.pasetti at alice.it]

Glynn,
 
>I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the
various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you
shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new
version of GRASS is released.

we could do as follows:
 
1. a *complete*, *first time* GRASS installer, based on latest release, with all the dependencies built-in
2. and *updater*, installed along the *first installation*, that check the WinGRASS repository looking for last GRASS updates, and download/install only the latest updated files (both for GRASS and dependencies). It would be not an easy work, but I think that I'll can do it... even if not very soon :-)
 
Marco
 

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Da: Glynn Clements [mailto:glynn at gclements.plus.com]
Inviato: mer 16/04/2008 10.20
A: Moritz Lennert
Cc: marco.pasetti at alice.it; 'Martin Landa'; 'GRASS developers list'
Oggetto: Re: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released




Moritz Lennert wrote:

> > It would be good also for me, even if it would better if we release it on
> > next week tough (I'm very busy now). BTW, there are few thing to do for me,
> > just some improvements for windows installer...
> >
> > Martin, do you think that we could add the needed python files into the
> > 6.3.0 windows package, in order to let users start the pyGUI without the
> > need to install python stuffs by themselves?
>
> -1
>
> I don't think we should bloat the installer with everything that people
> might need. It really is not difficult to download and install the
> python installers...

I would suggest two installers: one for GRASS alone, and one for the
various dependencies (PROJ, GDAL, MSys, ...). The idea is that you
shouldn't have to download all of the dependencies each time a new
version of GRASS is released.

An ideal solution would be to use Cygwin's Setup utility, but I don't
know how much work would be involved.

--
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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