[GRASSLIST:5635] Re: [GRASS5] Re: [Fwd: whinging about GRASS again]

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 11:13:06PM -0500, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Mark P. Line writes:
>  > Are all of these available in GRASS 5.7? Russell can't use 6.0 because
>  > it's not packaged with the Fedora distro he's got.
> 
> Of course I could fetch and compile GRASS 6.0 out of CVS, and probably
> will.  My point, which seems to be getting lost, is that when somebody
> is told to use GRASS, they're going to go looking for the package for
> their distro.  In the case of Fedora, who a few people are using, it's
> GRASS 5.7.
> 
> For many values of "is", GRASS is GRASS 5.7.

Maybe for Fedora users *currently*.
Why don't you simply ask the Fedora people to upgrade?

We are not responsible for the packages in Linux distros.
The interest of the GRASS Development Team is to provide GRASS
versions. The distro packaging is usually done by others.

As written earlier, in case of Suse 9.1 or Debian (or ...)
you can already have GRASS 6.0.0beta1.

Markus