[GRASS-dev] svn addon

[Martin Wegmann]

On Donnerstag, 10. Dezember 2009 23:47:27 Hamish wrote:
> Martin Wegmann wrote:
> > I am planning to add some landscape ecology/spatial pattern
> > analysis modules
> > to the GRASS svn addon repository but while looking at the
> > addon repository I
> > got a bit confused about the variation in folder topics.
> >
> > I thought that only folders concerning addons exist and
> > that they are split up
> > into thematic groups (folders), however various other
> > topics (e.g. flyer) exist as well.
> 
> maybe flyer should go into a "propoganda" subdir or so, but for
> the most part I don't think it is so bad.
> 
> in future we will eventually have to move the grass6 raster/vect
> etc dirs into a grass6/ subdir which will clean up the root a
> lot.
> 
> if your modules are part of a suite my recommendation would be
> to add them as e.g. raster/toolboxname/r.modulename/
> if they stand on their own add them as individual modules,
> raster/r.modulename/

thanks Hamish for clarifying this - I will add the suite to raster/...

 
> > I don't know if there have been already some discussions
> > concerning the addon repository structure, if not:
> > I would suggest first to move all non-addon folder to
> > a new folder e.g. "non_code", then add a folder for each
> > topic e.g.
> > "classification", "hydrology" etc. and move the respective
> > addons into these folders.
> 
> it is a bit of a pain to move things as it breaks everyone's
> URLs and g.extension hints.

ok, I wasn't aware of this problem, especially g.extension

> > Additionally I would suggest a html addon-overview
> > page with a short
> > description of the general aim and the specific modules.
> 
> see the Addons page on the wiki. Now that's where I think we
> could use a much better hierarchical design as it has grown
> to over 100 modules. Maybe put grass5, raster, vector on
> their own pages, then split by ==Heading== within those raster/
> vector pages?

ok - I'll add it to this page as well

> > I apologize if there have been already some
> > discussions/decisions concerning
> > this topic, I was just a bit expecting a R-like addon
> > structure, with overview, topics etc.
> 
> topics could also be centered around the wiki Applications pages.
> 
> I'm not more than a somewhat ignorant casual user of it, but
> usually I have to call on Google to navigate CRAN effectively,
> fwtw...

that is right, most often I search CRAN via google - but a very good starting 
point is also this webpage http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/ which would be 
nice for a GRASS addone overview as well, especially if the number of 
extensions increase further.

regards, Martin
 
> 
> 
> regards,
> Hamish
> 

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