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

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 9/6/19 5:18 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 7:18 AM Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.

`git archive` can create zip or tar.gz files from a repo, with
individual addon repos this can replace the Trac feature.

If you want to get rid of the build tools on the users system, provide
the archive creation as a service on e.g. grass.osgeo.org.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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