[GRASS-dev] [release planning] GRASS GIS 7.8.0 with Python3 support

[Vaclav Petras]

On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:18 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> čt 5. 9. 2019 v 12:48 odesílatel Sebastiaan Couwenberg
> <sebastic at xs4all.nl> napsal:
> > > that's wrong, g.extension is using 'svn export' (for official repo).
> >
> > Using `svn export` for git repositories makes no sense/is a horrible
> hack.
>
> I agree, so please suggest better solution to avoid that g.extension
> will clone whole repository to install only single addon. Personally I
> have no better idea than to use `svn export`.
>

Please also note that the latest pre-Git/GitHub g.extension was primarily
not using Subversion, but it was using a nice Trac feature which allowed to
download a zipped subdirectory of the repo, so Subversion was not a
must-have dependency. The idea was to get rid of build tool dependencies
for Python modules as well resulting in no dev packages needed for Python
modules on Linux while possibly getting arbitrary Python GRASS module code
on Windows from Trac or, e.g., from GitHub which supports downloading of a
(whole) repo (without submodules) as a zip file.
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