[GRASS-PSC] Important question about GRASS Mac binaries

[Michael Barton]

Thanks Vaclav,

Markus helped get permission to put these on the OSGEO server in the GRASS downloads area. You can find all my binaries now at: http://download.osgeo.org/grass/mac/

This seems a very good and sensible place to put these, along with other GRASS downloads.

Michael
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On Sep 8, 2022, at 6:12 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com<mailto:wenzeslaus at gmail.com>> wrote:


On Tue, 16 Aug 2022 at 14:00, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu<mailto:Michael.Barton at asu.edu>> wrote:

Is there storage for the GRASS project where these can go?

They can be uploaded as assets to releases at GitHub, see e.g.:

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.2.0<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases/tag/8.2.0__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!f8oFWmmhh0_3JBv9WU2lHKGCtf2Vp43VK9BrIcNQ3PIkBGG4MwLhA3xWupHD5FLcsjH2RbTCww7-FWzoZlThm6o$>

Having binaries on the development platform seems quite natural, it is done by other projects, and in the future the whole thing would ideally happen automatically.

It's not huge but not tiny. Currently at about 13 GB for all. If not, I may look into creating an OSF or Zenodo community I can use.

There are cases of software binaries at Zenodo:

https://zenodo.org/record/4659370<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zenodo.org/record/4659370__;!!IKRxdwAv5BmarQ!f8oFWmmhh0_3JBv9WU2lHKGCtf2Vp43VK9BrIcNQ3PIkBGG4MwLhA3xWupHD5FLcsjH2RbTCww7-FWzoamJ2LIA$>

We are already using Zenodo, so that would make sense. The issued DOIs for binaries in addition to the source code may cause confusion, though. Zenodo has a main DOI for a "project" and a DOI for each version of the "project". The main DOI is a redirect to the latest version. For source code, we have some confusion there already with latest, because it is latest by release date, not by version number. This would likely be the same for binaries.

OSF would probably work too, but you won't be using most of its project management features and I don't know how good it is for simple cases (where Zenodo works well).

Vaclav

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