[GRASSLIST:3657] Re: pre-compiled grass0pre4 with PostgreSQL, MESA, R...?

[Bernhard Reiter]

On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:56:49PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> pa paras wrote:

> > I hope this is not a stupid suggestion but
> > I was wondering if it would be a good idea
> > to release a pre-compiled grass package including all
> > the common libraries (e.g. PostSQL, MESA, R, ...).
> 
> It's not a stupid suggestion, in the sense that it isn't obvious that
> it's not a good idea; until you actually try to do it.
> 
> The main problem is that most of the libraries which GRASS uses are
> already supplied with all of the common Linux distributions. If we
> supplied our own versions, some of the time it would result in
> conflicts, possibly causing existing software to cease to function.
> 
> Another problem is the amount of work involved in producing
> pre-compiled libraries for all of the popular distributions 

The development team certainly welcomes more help with building
precompiled packages.

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