[GRASS-user] differences between GDAL Grass built-in support and GDAL-Grass plugin

[Markus Neteler]

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Paul Kelly
<paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jul 2008, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>> Does that mean that circular dependency has finally been dropped?

yes, for years now :)

>> Unless one really needs r.out.gdal.sh?
>
> Well, you might want GDAL to be able to read GRASS datasets outside GRASS
> for other purposes

right, for example with Mapserver. See
http://grass.itc.it/start.html
for some examples (the first is broken apparently, the others work).

> But as Martin said speaking from a GRASS point of view, GRASS does not need
> GDAL to be compiled with GRASS support or to have a GDAL-GRASS plugin
> enabled.

Likewise from the GDAL point of view.

Markus