#2236: REQUIREMENTS file not clear about compilation and priority
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Reporter: wenzeslaus | Owner: grass-dev@…
Type: task | Status: new
Priority: trivial | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: Docs | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: compilation, requirements, dependencies | Platform: Unspecified
Cpu: Unspecified |
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Th file source:grass/trunk/REQUIREMENTS.html list ''General requirements''
and ''Optional requirements'' however, this is not as useful as it could
be.
For example, Python is in ''Optional requirements'' but you cannot build
GRASS documentation and probably other things without it. Moreover,
without Python you cannot use any module from scripts and temporal (which
is not noted anywhere).
And in the same ''Optional requirements'' category there is R language and
MySQL libraries which are really optional and not critical at all.
By the way, ''R'' is referred as just ''R'' at their website
(http://www.r-project.org/) and other places. Description of a package in
Ubuntu says ''GNU R'' and ''R''. The project for development of this
software is sometimes referred as ''R project'' (note the lower p), most
notably the URL of the web site. However, since ''R'' is too short,
sometimes, ''R * environment'', ''R * system'' or, previously mentioned,
''GNU R'' are used.
Python now moved to required section in r59504. Also I changed 'R
language' to 'R Statistics', so it will be understandable even to people
who haven't heard of it before.
what's the story with XDR + MS Windows? is it mandatory/what provides it
there?
> what's the story with XDR + MS Windows? is it mandatory/what provides it
there?
XDR is no longer a dependency in 7.0. libgis provides XDR functions (they
currently only work on systems where floating-point uses IEEE-754
representation, which is roughly everything except for Cray and Vax).