grass debian package

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Daniel Reuter's letter:

Hello Federico,

Nice to hear, that grass will be packaged. I'm not a developer, so perhaps
this is quite stupid, but my five pence concerning splitting this
for sure really large package:
Perhaps a splitting scheme similar to the one used with postgresql or
perl would be sensible:
- Put docs (manpages) in a separate package

i'll do that... but manpages are just 1.1M vs 28M package!

- Put graphical user interface into a separate package (is tcltkgrass
  already included in 4.99? Don't know at the moment).

tcltkgrass is included. weigths about 500K (no bonus in splitting it.)

- Perhaps split by functions (i.e. make a base package and make packages
  called lets say grass-image-processing, grass-printing-system, though
  it sure would be difficult to tell which functions should already be in
  base, and which should go into separate packages.

mmm... i don't know. there are really people that use, say, onlt r.*
commands and never need a ps.* one?

i still havent build the nviz interface and other cruft. i that's
big enough it will surely go into a separate package.

the main problem is that a *lot* of command are linked statically
with common code. some times ago i requested help on the grass ml
to make grass build shared, but nobody answered...

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Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@mixadlive.com
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org
              All programmers are optimists. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Frank Warmerdam's letter:

Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
> the main problem is that a *lot* of command are linked statically
> with common code. some times ago i requested help on the grass ml
> to make grass build shared, but nobody answered...

Federico,

I think this will happen by GRASS 5.1.

that's great. in the meantime anybody wanting to test the debian
package can download it from http://www.debian.org/~fog. sorry
for repeating that but i don't know if my previous mail got through.

i am compiling the 2nd version, with full manpages and a .diff to
let people try building a .deb on other architectures. it will be
uploaded by tomorrw, 12:00 GMT (that's noon, not midnight.) (the
diff is already in place who wants to give it a try?)

next try will be to compile nviz. what else?

ciao,
federico

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Federico Di Gregorio
MIXAD LIVE System Programmer fog@mixadlive.com
Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact fog@debian.org
              All programmers are optimists. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.