GRASS debs finally ready for testing

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Federico, hi all,

some sidenotes:

On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:06:48PM -0500, Lisa Zygo wrote:
> Hi *,
> 
>         I finally managed to compile and debianize GRASS. It toke me
> a long time and the package is still buggy. You can download it from:
> 
>         http://www.debian.org/~fog/grass_4.99b8-1_i386.deb
> 
> No apt at now and, please, send bugreports regarding the package
> directly
> to me and not to the Debian BTS. Know problems:
> 
>   1/ the package is too big. how can i split it?
This issue we'll address for the next major GRASS 5 release.
Soon we'll publish GRASS 5.0stable, then we'll go for a major
code reorganization and modularizing. As this might break much
for a short time, we have decided to release a stable GRASS 5
release first.

>   2/ not everything is included. i still have some compilation
> problems...
Please try the forthcoming GRASS 5stable. Stability will be heavily
improved.

>   3/ manpages not included at now (lost my reformatting scripts...)
The new man-page concept is build on HTML pages. We are currently
updating all missing man-pages in HTML format (most of it is
already available on the GRASS servers) and generate the MAN pages
from that.


>   4/ fifos included in the package! (/in /usr/lib/grass5/dev) how much
>      work would be to move them to /var? any grass expert out there?
As the fifo's are related to GRASS monitors only, they may stay in
/usr/lib/grass5/dev. For future we plan to replace the fifo concept by
sockets (this will allow to have graphical output on Windows).

Kind regards

 Markus

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Dipl.-Geogr. Markus Neteler *  University of Hannover
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