[GRASS-user] Grass on MacOS (Ken Mankoff)

[Ken Mankoff]

Hi Michael,

Although my name is in the subject, I didn't get this email until just now - Apparently I have a filter that is too aggressive - I follow the grass-users list but not the grass-dev list, and even though I was on the "To:" field I didn't get it.

Anyway, using Anaconda is a neat idea. I'm happy with MacPorts for now, but will test this, and be very interested if it offers more bleeding-edge versions than MacPorts (still at 7.2.2), or improves on some existing bugs (g.extension, t.*, etc.). I note that Linux users also use Anaconda so your user base may grow larger than the MacPorts base.

Thank you!

  -k

On 2018-01-14 at 20:31, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> Ken & Co. 
>
> You might find this of interest. 
>
> I've been working off and on for the past several month to find a new
> way to compile and distribute GRASS for Mac with all dependencies
> created outside the Mac system folders and bundled with it. The goal
> is to eliminate the SIP problem and the potential for conflicts with
> different versions of dependencies/frameworks/python/wxpython.
>
> With a lot of help from colleague Eric Hutton (Community Surface
> Dynamics Modeling System), we are very close to having a reproducible
> and distributable build of GRASS under Anaconda. Our goal is to
> compile GRASS in an Anaconda environment so that it is distributable
> in two related ways: as a standard Mac package and app, and as an
> Anaconda package (installed via the command 'conda install [grass
> version]'). This will be a fully 64 bit GRASS version using wxPython 3
> for the GUI.
>
> Due to the many other responsibilities and pulls on our time, Eric and
> I have only been able to work sporadically. But as of this week we are
> down to one main baffling and annoying problem left to solve. Then we
> can do some clean up and begin making this build available to test.
> With that in mind, if anyone has experience in creating Mac *.app and
> *.pkg environments for distribution, please get in touch. You might be
> able to help us get over the last hurdle.
>
> Cheers
> Michael
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