[GRASS-PSC] difficult to get GRASS source code package

[Michael Barton]

I stand corrected. I am not sure that I have the current 8.0 stable release. Cloning gives me the main repository, not 8.0.0 stable. I can check out a branch but need to make sure that I've got the stable release 8.0.0. The reason is that I'm trying to package this in sync with other platforms. It looks like the 8.0.0 branch was updated recently. So it is not the fixed stable release of 17 days ago.

Michael
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C. Michael Barton
Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (https://scas.asu.edu<https://scas.asu.edu/>)
Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (https://shesc.asu.edu)
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (https://complexity.asu.edu)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
USA

Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io<https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/>)
Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological Sciences (https://comses.net)

personal website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton


On Feb 14, 2022, at 9:08 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:

This sounds a bit weird, but with some recent changes to the GRASS website, it has become more difficult to find and download a current stable release.

I went to find a tar/zip package of GRASS 8.0.0 source code to build and could not find one from the web site. The links all lead only to the GitHub repository. This is fine for people who want dev versions. But I would think that some people just want the package. I eventually cloned one from GitHub, but even there, it is not transparent how to get the stable release vs. an updated version. Even on GitHub, the clone/download button seemed to be missing.

While I could get the software, it seems like we should put back in a link to the source code packages somewhere.

Michael
_____________________________

C. Michael Barton
Associate Director, School of Complex Adaptive Systems (https://scas.asu.edu<https://scas.asu.edu/>)
Professor, School of Human Evolution & Social Change (https://shesc.asu.edu<https://shesc.asu.edu/>)
Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity (https://complexity.asu.edu<https://complexity.asu.edu/>)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2701
USA

Executive Director, Open Modeling Foundation (https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io<https://openmodelingfoundation.github.io/>)
Director, Network for Computational Modeling in Social & Ecological Sciences (https://comses.net<https://comses.net/>)

personal website: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton



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