[GRASS5] Grass 5.0.2 and 5.7.0 for Mac OS X (Fink)

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I'm working on the Fink build for Grass 5.7.0 and have it working. The question is, how should grass 5.70 work 5.0.2:

1) Fink grass 5.7.0 should replace 5.0.2 completely, so that a single system that upgrades to a current Fink would only have 5.7.0 on their system. You could not run both on the same system at the same time.
2) 5.7.0 should be able to live on the same system that has an install of 5.0.2 on it? So you would have grass5 and grass57 binaries.

I'd need to get this answered before the Fink tree is updated with the new grass.

Also, one more issue is that the current 5.0.2 links against PostgreSQL 7.3 and I'd like to have 5.7.0 link against PostgreSQL 7.4. Let me know if this will be a problem. I haven't done a DB upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 so don't know how easy or difficult this is.

BTW, I'm only working on getting this into Mac OS X 10.3. If somebody else wants to backport these to 10.2 when the Fink .info files are all done, then this shouldn't be too hard.

Regards,
Blair

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On Sunday 27 June 2004 22:39, Blair Zajac wrote:

I'm working on the Fink build for Grass 5.7.0 and have it working. The
question is, how should grass 5.70 work 5.0.2:

1) Fink grass 5.7.0 should replace 5.0.2 completely, so that a single
system that upgrades to a current Fink would only have 5.7.0 on their
system. You could not run both on the same system at the same time.
2) 5.7.0 should be able to live on the same system that has an install of
5.0.2 on it? So you would have grass5 and grass57 binaries.

I'd need to get this answered before the Fink tree is updated with the new
grass.

2)

Also, one more issue is that the current 5.0.2 links against PostgreSQL 7.3
and I'd like to have 5.7.0 link against PostgreSQL 7.4. Let me know if
this will be a problem. I haven't done a DB upgrade from 7.3 to 7.4 so
don't know how easy or difficult this is.

I don't think that users like updates of SQL servers.
Important is, if 7.4 clients can work with 7.3 server?

Radim