[GRASSLIST:4261] Re: Releasing GRASS modules

[Paul Kelly]

On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Benjamin Ducke wrote:

> I would like to release some GPL'd GRASS 5.3 modules
> for spatial predictvie modelling into
> the GRASS community. My questions are:
>
> 1. is there a way to set up a Gmakefile so that HTML
>  manpages are merged into the GRASS documentation index?
>  The way it is right now, the HTML pages get copied into
>  the user's documentation/html directory, but there are
>  no links from the main index.html file so that the user
>  is left to point his webbrowser to the files explicitly.

No; this index is just maintained manually. Note that all the files in the 
html/html directory are converted into man pages during compilation so 
that you can read them with g.manual. This isn't done for 5.7 (although I
wish it was), which just has html pages.

> 2. once other people have tried and tested the modules
>  and find them useful, is it possible to include them
>  into the 5.3 CVS, so that people will not have to
>  download the source from my homepage and have to install
>  separately?

There will be no new modules in the 5.3 CVS before the 5.4.0 release. Do 
the modules use any special features of 5.3 that mean they can't be used 
directly or easily ported to 5.7?

Perhaps if things drag on for a long time, after the 5.4.0 release the
modules could be added to the '5.5 CVS', but CVS write access to that is
going to be closed so you would not be able to commit bugfixes. Better to
add them to 5.7 I think.

Paul