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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Moritz,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>I'm sorry, but I didn't understand your message; do you mean that we should put sources directly in the MSYS environment archive, or that whe should put them into the binary package (installer)?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Da:</B> Moritz Lennert [mailto:mlennert@club.worldonline.be]<BR><B>Inviato:</B> dom 30/03/2008 21.08<BR><B>A:</B> Markus Neteler<BR><B>Cc:</B> marco.pasetti@alice.it; GRASS developers list; GRASS-PSC<BR><B>Oggetto:</B> Re: Providing source code along with binaries<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>On 30/03/08 10:44, Markus Neteler wrote:<BR>> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Moritz Lennert<BR>> <mlennert@club.worldonline.be> wrote:<BR>>> On 25/03/08 16:42, Markus Neteler wrote:<BR>>> > (cc PSC,<BR>>> > thread: <A href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-March/036460.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-March/036460.html</A><BR>>> > )<BR>>> ><BR>>> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Moritz Lennert<BR>>> > <mlennert@club.worldonline.be> wrote:<BR>>> >> On 25/03/08 10:13, Markus Neteler wrote:<BR>>> >> > Moritz Lennert wrote: ...<BR>>> > ...<BR>>> >> >> Everything is available at<BR>>> >> >> <A href="http://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/grass/wingrass/wingrass_sources/">http://geog-pc40.ulb.ac.be/grass/wingrass/wingrass_sources/</A><BR>>> >> >> including the version of the GRASS sources you used (don't think<BR>>> >> >> this is necessary, but just to be complete). All packages are<BR>>> >> >> available individually, and there also is a wingrass_sources.tar<BR>>> >> >> which contains them all.<BR>>> >> >><BR>>> >> >> Maybe Markus can just get the tar and put it on the download site<BR>>> >> >> next to the installer ?<BR>>> >> ><BR>>> >> > you mean: wingrass_sources.tar 13-Mar-2008 11:48 45M ?<BR>>> >> ><BR>>><BR>>> Note that a big chunk of that is the GRASS source which is already on<BR>>> the site, so it doesn't need to be replicated. Just took that out and<BR>>> now we are down to 29M.<BR>><BR>> I have copied your file wingrass_sources.tar (which should be better<BR>> gzip'ed, btw)<BR><BR>All it's content is gzip'ed, so gzip'ing the .tar doesn't make any<BR>difference in terms of size...<BR><BR>> also to<BR>> <A href="http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/">http://grass.osgeo.org/grass63/binary/mswindows/</A><BR>><BR>> Now we have there<BR>> * MSYS_Environment_080303.zip 03-Mar-2008 07:39 58M<BR>> * wingrass_sources.tar.gz 26-Mar-2008 01:39 28M<BR>><BR>> I feel that there is replication.<BR><BR>Why ?<BR><BR>the MSYS environment contains the environment needed to compile GRASS<BR>binaries, including the binaries and headers of dependencies, but not<BR>the source code of all these dependencies which is in wingrass_sources.<BR><BR>Where you have replication is between the MSYS environment file and the<BR>binary installer, since both contain the binaries of the different<BR>dependencies...<BR><BR>Moritz<BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>