[GRASS-dev] r.modis in GRASS 7 trunk

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2012/10/30 Benjamin Ducke <benducke at fastmail.fm>:
> What's the difference between having 300 or 500
> modules in the base distribution? GRASS has the
> file layout required to scale up to this size
> easily, and each individual module is small and
> lean. Even if we were to triple the number of
> modules in the base distribution, the download
> size would not increase significantly (and vice
> versa).

btw, see a new toolbox-like proposal by Soeren from Prague's Community
Sprint [1].

> - Having to compile add-ons written in C/C++ is a
> big obstace, g.extension or not, for many users,
> especially on Windows.

why? There are pre-compiled binaries. No problem to install addons on Windows.

[...]

> So I am not convinced about the merits of breaking
> the GRASS distribution into smaller pieces and add-ons.
> Instead, I would say the base distribution should grow
> as required and include new, useful modules such as r.modis.

I am not against including r.modis into trunk. I just wanted to
express my option that there were several modules in the past added to
the trunk which probably should stay in addons.

Martin

[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Toolboxes

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