[GRASS-dev] m.printws - new module recommendation/announcement

[Robert Kuszinger]

Dear Veronica,

Anna was faster with her answer. To ease the use I'll put it into a
standalone repo as Anna recommended and test myself the g.extension way.
Also I'm happy to hear that now it runs.

Thanks
Robert


2016-08-03 21:47 GMT+02:00 Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com>:

> Thanks much for the instructions, Anna!
>
> In the end, what I did was to download the whole folder, unzip, extract
> only the m.printws, zip it and use g.extension
>
> g.extension m.printws url=/home/veroandreo/software/m.printws.zip
>
> and it worked perfectly :)
>
> best,
> Vero
>
> 2016-08-03 16:14 GMT-03:00 Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> I think it's because it's not at top level in the repository.
>> g.extension expects the module is at top level and creates an URL of
>> the zip. Github doesn't seem to allow you to download a subdirectory
>> from the repo as a zip, so I don't think we can do anything about it,
>> at least not easily.
>>
>> Either download the module manually and run in the directory with the
>> module:
>> make MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/trunk
>> make install MODULE_TOPDIR=/path/to/trunk
>>
>>
>> * or Robert can split the repo into two, one for each addon. *
>> Anna
>>
>
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