Michael wrote:
The Trac page is nice. It's easy to quickly access the source code
and bug tracker, and the view changes feature is especially helpful.
One thing that seems missing is the ability to download a tarball of
all or part of the source code. This was particularly handy to give
non-developers easy access to code in GRASS addons.
Frank:
>> A number of projects run cronjobs on download.osgeo.org to prepare
>> night SVN snapshots. Would this satisfy the need you see? I can
>> work with anyone interested in setting this up.
Moritz:
> I think that a 'download tarball' button would be nice, as this
> allows to download a tarball of just any directory you want.
>
> This seems to be implemented in Trac, but needs to be configured
> via the 'downloadable_paths' variable.
Frank:
I reviewed this and it appears this just gives the one-file-at-a-time
downloading option. It does not appear to allow downloading
directories and directory trees as a tarball.
One thing I have been very keen to keep from the grass CVS is a ViewCVS
interface (now known as ViewVC). This provides the directory level
tarball functionality Michael asks for (link at the bottom of each
page).
The trac one is pretty nice:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser
But I still prefer ViewCVS:
http://freegis.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/
there was an example here, but it seems to be no longer active:
http://josef.fsv.cvut.cz/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/?root=grass7svn
other projects provide multiple browsing methods, e.g. for gpsd:
http://developer.berlios.de/svn/?group_id=2116
[with respect to gpsd, Frank might I suggest leaning on Eric to see if
they might like to join osgeo? I believe there was initial interest, it
would seem a nice project to have on board]
hmph: picking out a random GRASS file to look at the Trac SVN browser
shows that something is misaligned- the d.colors/curses.c file is
showing the SVN history for (apparently) the r.out.gdal help page.
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset?old_path=grass%2Ftrunk%2Fdisplay%2Fd.colors%2Fcurses.c&old=29409&new_path=grass%2Ftrunk%2Fdisplay%2Fd.colors%2Fcurses.c&new=29409
Frank:
Beyond that it isn't such an issue. But given that Trac does not
seem to provide the desired service, I think we are back to preparing
nightly tarballs.
with respect to naming the nightly/weekly SVN branch snapshots, I would
suggest (for solely consistency's sake) maintaining the current naming
scheme. e.g. grass-6.3.svn_src_snapshot_2007_12_08.tar.gz
thanks,
Hamish
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