[GRASS-dev] GRASS extensions/addons mismatch

[Hamish]

btw, my current feeling about the ~/.grass$MAJOR/addons$MAJOR.$MINOR.$BUGVER
specific path to protect from binary GIS_H incompatibility is that it
may be better to create a ~/.grass65/ in addition to ~/.grass64 to keep
the two separate.

The main conflict would be if users swap back and forth between 6.4 and
6.5svn. splitting them up avoids that. on the other hand users (and maybe
but not always developers) are expected to only use one version of the
stable branch at a time, and monotonically increase their stable version.

so they could run 'g.extension.refresh.all' or whatever to rebuild all
modules.xml registered C modules soon after upgrade and then be up to
date. or just g.extension as usual to manually reinstall/refresh a
previous build as needed/when needed.

6.5svn users would be expected to take care of themselves, but esentially
the same simple upgrade/rebuild path.


seems cleaner as the main (only?) ABI conflict is developers going back
and forth between 6.4 and 6.5.

what do you think?


Hamish