[GRASS-dev] GRASS GIS installation on Mac OSX [was : Re: [GRASS GIS] #2942: Startup after Novice Install]

[Markus Metz]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Anna Petrášová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 3:26 AM, Moritz Lennert
> <mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> > On 27/06/17 01:02, GRASS GIS wrote:
> >>
> >> #2942: Startup after Novice Install
> >> ------------------------+-------------------------
> >>   Reporter:  pactriglo  |      Owner:  grass-dev@…
> >>       Type:  defect     |     Status:  new
> >>   Priority:  normal     |  Milestone:  7.0.6
> >>  Component:  Startup    |    Version:  7.0.3
> >> Resolution:             |   Keywords:
> >>        CPU:  OSX/Intel  |   Platform:  MacOSX
> >> ------------------------+-------------------------
> >>
> >> Comment (by annakrat):
> >>
> >>  Use homebrew from osgeo4mac:
> >>
> >>  {{{
> >>  brew tap osgeo/osgeo4mac
> >>  brew install grass7
> >>  }}}
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2942#comment:5>
> >> GRASS GIS <https://grass.osgeo.org>
> >
> >
> > Is this the official recommendation on how to install GRASS GIS on Mac
OSX
> > these days ?
> >
>
> I was recommending this way in our recent workshops because it's the
> only way which works with SIP enabled. It's far from ideal because it
> doesn't always work, sometimes people have several Python
> installations on Mac which complicates things and for some reason,
> ctypes don't work there (so no PyGRASS or digitizer or 3D view). And
> the installation takes time on slower computers because it's compiling
> everything.
>
> Michael's binaries work only when SIP is disabled. It's fairly easy to
> disable it, but still, you have to boot into recovery system, open
> command line and run a command there, so it looks little scary for
> most people.
>
> Even your own compilation is fairly difficult, one reason is that
> official wxPython 3 mac package is old

How much effort would it be to enable compatibility with the official
wxPython 3 mac package? Maybe it is worth the effort?

GRASS tries hard to run on various different operating systems
(alphabetically Android, BSD, Linux, Mac, Unix, Windows) and different
versions of these.

Markus M

> and new macs refuse to open and
> install. So in general I am getting sick of this issue and
> unfortunately I don't have time nor knowledge to do anything about it.
>
> > My students with MacOSX have been a bit confused about the different
ways to
> > download GRASS GIS, especially when they were trying to install it in
> > parallel with QGIS for cross-usage (grass plugin and processing
toolbox).
> >
>
> this is something I haven't even tried. If some of your students find
> better ways of installing GRASS, let me know.
>
> Anna
>
>
> > BTW, in the homebrew formula for grass7 [1] I see:
> >
> > stable do
> >     url "https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/grass-7.2.0.tar.gz"
> >
> > i.e. 7.2.0, instead of 7.2.1.
> >
> > Maybe we should create a symbolic link
> >
> >
> > https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/current_stable.tar.gz ->
> > https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/grass-7.2.1.tar.gz
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Or even
> >
> > https://grass.osgeo.org/current_stable.tar.gz ->
> > https://grass.osgeo.org/grass72/source/grass-7.2.1.tar.gz
> >
> > to make it easier for build scripts such as these to always point to the
> > latest stable version ?
> >
> >
> > Moritz
> >
> > [1]
> >
https://github.com/OSGeo/homebrew-osgeo4mac/blob/master/Formula/grass7.rb
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