This sounds a bit weird, but with some recent changes to the GRASS website, it has become more difficult to find and download a current stable release.
I went to find a tar/zip package of GRASS 8.0.0 source code to build and could not find one from the web site. The links all lead only to the GitHub repository.
In my view (I expressed that also in the past) we should link a zip
file/tarball directly on that page. Just pointing to GH isn’t enough
and we even have the tarballs on the server:
Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above. The links (both .tar.gz and .zip) are more readily available there. The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a preferred view at this point in the workflow.
Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above. The links (both .tar.gz and .zip) are more readily available there. The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a preferred view at this point in the workflow.
Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above.
The links (both .tar.gz and .zip) are more readily available there.
The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a
preferred view at this point in the workflow.
By the way, one of my last interactions with Martin Isenburg (may his soul rest in peace) he gave me a strong lecture when I tried to send him a tarball "jeff it is 2021 please send me something useful like a ZIP". He is totally right of course, and we should all remember to post links to zip as well as .tar.gz etc on our main download pages.
-jeff
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Jeff McKenna
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On Monday, 14 February 2022, 21:27:41 CET, Huidae Cho <grass4u@gmail.com> wrote:
+1 for ZIP links.
Huidae
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 3:24 PM Jeff McKenna <jmckenna@gatewaygeomatics.com> wrote:
On 2022-02-14 4:01 p.m., Veronica Andreo wrote:
El lun, 14 feb 2022 a las 20:29, Vaclav Petras (<wenzeslaus@gmail.com
<mailto:wenzeslaus@gmail.com>>) escribió:
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 at 14:22, Veronica Andreo <veroandreo@gmail\.com
<mailto:veroandreo@gmail.com>> wrote:
Currently, there's a link to releases in the first entry of
https://grass.osgeo.org/download/
<https://grass.osgeo.org/download/> that points to
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases
<https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/releases>\. I agree that esp for
8\.0\.0 the link to the tarball means a lot of browsing down\.
Or instead of the releases page to that tags page I linked above\.
The links \(both \.tar\.gz and \.zip\) are more readily available there\.
The target audience is technical anyway, so perhaps this is a
preferred view at this point in the workflow\.
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags
<https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/tags>
By the way, one of my last interactions with Martin Isenburg (may his
soul rest in peace) he gave me a strong lecture when I tried to send him
a tarball "jeff it is 2021 please send me something useful like a ZIP".
He is totally right of course, and we should all remember to post
links to zip as well as .tar.gz etc on our main download pages.
