r.external - was: Re: [GRASS-dev] some questions about future development

[Paul Kelly]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2008, Glynn Clements wrote:

> AFAICT, the only "core" GDAL dependencies are the OSR stuff in
> lib/proj and g.proj, and the vector library's support for v.external.
> In which case, it really ought to be possible to get a usable version
> of GRASS with no GDAL dependency in any of the libraries or core
> modules (e.g. g.proj, g.region).

It used to be possible to compile g.proj without GDAL support, and use it 
only for reporting on the projection information and verifying datum 
information, but I removed all the conditional stuff for that when GDAL 
became a non-optional dependency. Could be put back in I suppose.

Paul