[GRASS-dev] GRASS extensions/addons mismatch

[Martin Landa]

2011/12/15 Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>:
>> it doesn't work to put GRASS_ADDON_PATH into .grass.bashrc,
>> you need to export it from your ~/.bashrc or ~/.profile.
>> (and it is too invasive to start appending to those automatically)
>
> It is not good to mess with these on the Mac unless you know what you are doing. That rules out most Mac users.

well, not only Mac-users ;-)

>> it needs to be set before init.sh/grass.py gets run.
>>
>> my plan for trunk was to rename GRASS_ADDON_PATH (taken over
>> by g.extension.py) to GRASS_ADDON_BASE, then re-add
>> GRASS_ADDON_PATH as a $PATH component, if it exists. if it was
>> not already set then nothing is added to the environment.. it's
>> there if you want to use it, and not if you don't.
>>
>> that does not preclude the wxGUI having a Preference setting
>> to add some dirs to the copy of the $PATH it maintains, starting
>> with any existing GRASS_ADDON_PATH enviro variable that was
>> there when it launched.
>
> All this is fine. However, GRASS_ADDON_BASE should not be a hidden file on a Mac. It is problem enough that preferences are there if you ever have to mess with them outside of the GRASS GUI.

There is no GRASS_ADDON_BASE. Anyway it should be controlled only by
`g.extension` (user scripts can live somewhere else). So basically
there is no problem that g.extension installs extensions to the hidden
directory.

Martin

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