[GRASSLIST:1685] Re: GRASS binaries: why not?

[Christian S. Ferreira]

Hi again,

>On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:04:48PM -0200, Christian s. Ferreira wrote:
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>>Hi List,
>>
>>    Just a simple question: Why the GRASS release candidates
>>(in this case: GRASS 5.0.3) are not distributed like binaries.
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>That's a good question. I would appreciate if there were binaries.
>The main problems is that I cannot do that alone. Only if more people
>jump in and prepare such binaries we can provide them.
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    Where do I become a candidate or get involved with that? But
I must say that I just use Linux on Intel PC's.

>>    In my opinion binaries would be more easy for newbies to test/install
>>and return bugs.
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>Definitely.
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>>    I already compiled GRASS, but this may exclude many people that
>>could help testing the release candidates (and maybe the unstable versions).
>>    Please, I don't wanna make anybody angry, it's just my opinion.
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>It's a valid point. We simply need more people for
>- updating the web pages
>- creating binary packages for various platforms (tar.gz)
>- create RPMs and debian packages
>- perform testing
>- help in polishing the code in 5.3/5.7
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    Well, I'm not a programmer, and not a web designer either, so I can
help creating binaries, build RPM packages (now I use Red Hat 9.0), and
of course testing, in my spare time.

>http://grass.itc.it/help-wanted.html
>(also this page could be more exciting!)
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    There is a lot of things in that list. How do I start there?

>Best regards
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> Markus Neteler
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    Cheers

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