[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #2236: REQUIREMENTS file not clear about compilation and priority

[GRASS GIS]

#2236: REQUIREMENTS file not clear about compilation and priority
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 Reporter:  wenzeslaus                               |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task                                     |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  trivial                                  |   Milestone:  7.0.0                    
Component:  Docs                                     |     Version:  svn-trunk                
 Keywords:  compilation, requirements, dependencies  |    Platform:  Unspecified              
      Cpu:  Unspecified                              |  
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 Th file source:grass/trunk/REQUIREMENTS.html list ''General requirements''
 and ''Optional requirements'' however, this is not as useful as it could
 be.

 For example, Python is in ''Optional requirements'' but you cannot build
 GRASS documentation and probably other things without it. Moreover,
 without Python you cannot use any module from scripts and temporal (which
 is not noted anywhere).

 And in the same ''Optional requirements'' category there is R language and
 MySQL libraries which are really optional and not critical at all.

 By the way, ''R'' is referred as just ''R'' at their website
 (http://www.r-project.org/) and other places. Description of a package in
 Ubuntu says ''GNU R'' and ''R''. The project for development of this
 software is sometimes referred as ''R project'' (note the lower p), most
 notably the URL of the web site. However, since ''R'' is too short,
 sometimes, ''R * environment'', ''R * system'' or, previously mentioned,
 ''GNU R'' are used.

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