[GRASS-user] Fwd: [GRASS-dev] New WinGrass Release

[Hamish]

Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
> Would be great for the users if the WinGRASS packaging
> effort between the two team could somehow be synccronised.

In fact they are, the osgeo4w installer uses parts of the native installer setup, and in addition runs its own scripts in the osgeo4w dir here:

http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/branches/releasebranch_6_4/mswindows

typically a bug fix for one helps both.


> Perhaps, OSGeo4W advanced install option could have an
> option for installing the newer wingrass package by
> Colin. This would make things a bit easier for the testers
> too.

it's up to osgeo4w to rebuild their packages in their own way.
the process is now a bit simpler:
  http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows



Hamish