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

[Glynn Clements]

marco.pasetti at alice.it wrote:

> >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 :-)

I don't see much point in doing both. If you have #2, it makes #1
rather pointless.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>