On my way out of town. I have 3 quick comments
1) How the binary installers are packaged should not affect the 6.3.0
release. IMHO, go for it.
2) A separate dependency installer is an excellent idea for Windows. That is
what has been done on the Mac for years and is very successful.
3) Currently, while the wxPython GUI is in development, I think that is is
quite OK to require testers to install Python (and maybe wxPython),
especially since this is quite easy. Ultimately, I would hope that compiling
GRASS would also run Python distutilities (or something like that) to
provide a portable binary GUI that *doesn't* require installing Python or
anything else.
Michael
On 4/16/08 1:50 AM, "grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org"
<grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:47:15 +0200
From: "Martin Landa" <landa.martin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released
To: "marco.pasetti@alice.it" <marco.pasetti@alice.it>
Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1Marco,
2008/4/16, marco.pasetti@alice.it <marco.pasetti@alice.it>:
Martin, do you think that we could add the needed python files into the
6.3.0 windows package, in order to let users start the pyGUI without the
need to install python stuffs by themselves?-1
I don't think we should bloat the installer with everything that people
might need. It really is not difficult to download and install the
python installers...The only thing we could consider is to add an option to automatically
download and install the python stuff, but not add it to our installer
directly.I agree here with Moritz. Python/wxPython installation process on
Windows seems to me to be quite simple. I would not expect that the
user how is not able to install e.g. Python will be able to use GRASS
at the end;-)Martin
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