Announce: new GRASS 5 beta4 on Tuesday, 26. October
Eric G . Miller
egm2 at jps.net
Wed Oct 27 21:16:24 EDT 1999
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 01:02:25PM +0100, Markus Neteler wrote:
> > > GRASS 5 beta4 is published under GPL:
> > > http://www.geog.uni-hannover.de/grass/
>
> Yes, I think we are all quite happy (the Baylor team as well!)
>
> > BTW, I suppose that there is now a good chance to see Grass included
> > in Linux distributions (Debian, RedHat, Suse, etc...). Is
> > anybody thinking about some more "end-user" package (i.e. binaries
> > + data + tutorial) ?
> Yes, we consider creating "rpm" packages. Perhaps
>
> - one source rpm
> - one Linux binary rpm
> - one data rpm
>
> But: No idea to create such packages (and no time). any volunteer
> to help here?
>
> Markus
>
I'd let the distros sort it out. I know there's a Debian maintainer
working on a 4.2 version *.deb. Each distro might want to muck with
the configuration anyway. However, as a bandwidth impaired user, I'd
appreciate parts of the system being broken up into more manageable
chunks. For instance, grass-core, grass-addins (SWAT, AGNPS, ANSWERS,
etc), grass-docs(html,ps,etc..), grass-sample-data. That 20MB file is a
long download (on a modem) if it succeeds, and many of thoses proggies
don't seem to compile by default anyway.
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