[GRASS-dev] Add-ons not building since January

[Moritz Lennert]

On 16/03/21 06:57, Luca Delucchi wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 01:10, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi devs,
>>
> 
> Hi Vero,
> 
>> I'm teaching a GRASS course and one of the students using windows told me that he didn't have i.landsat.qa.
>>
>> Checking the log, the last building date seems to be January 26th [0]. i.landsat.qa was added a couple of weeks later, hence not there.
>>
>> Is there a way to re trigger the building of add-ons for windows? Or an alternative solution for windows users to install add-ons?
>>
> 
> I'm not a windows user, so I could say something wrong, since it is a
> python script could be enough to copy the python file into addons
> folder and make it executable (on Unix it works)
> 

I think in MS Windows, this implies creating a .bat file which then call 
the .py script. Look at how the current version of the scripts in 
i.landsat (or any other Python addons) are organized.

You can create the zip file yourself and make it available to the 
students and they can point to the file directly with url=.

Spo yes, it is definitely possible, but it is always a bummer when you 
have to use such an approach to install an extension when g.extension 
should "just work". Just makes GRASS GIS less credible.

The recently added r.centroid is not available either. Maybe we can 
think of some github-based testing of addon compilation for MS Windows ? 
Triggered whenever a module is modified on github ?

Moritz