[GRASS5] need to correct listings on versiontracker and Macupdates

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Lorenzo Moretti just discovered that his binaries had been posted on versiontracker.com and macupdates.com mistakenly listing OpenOSX and Joshua Lacock as the developer. I just checked on versiontracker and now the link to GRASS 6.0 downloads a source file for GRASS 5.4. This is confusing to the many people who check this site. It would be a very good thing to have GRASS for OSX listed on these sites, but we need to make sure that the correct contact information, including the main GRASS website is properly listed and the development team credited. I sent a note to version tracker to correct the current errors, but wondered if perhaps I or someone (Kirk??) should sign up with these places to make sure that the current releases, change logs, etc. get properly linked.

Michael

Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

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On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

Lorenzo Moretti just discovered that his binaries had been posted on versiontracker.com and macupdates.com mistakenly listing OpenOSX and Joshua Lacock as the developer. I just checked on versiontracker and now the link to GRASS 6.0 downloads a source file for GRASS 5.4. This is confusing to the many people who check this site. It would be a very good thing to have GRASS for OSX listed on these sites, but we need to make sure that the correct contact information, including the main GRASS website is properly listed and the development team credited. I sent a note to version tracker to correct the current errors, but wondered if perhaps I or someone (Kirk??) should sign up with these places to make sure that the current releases, change logs, etc. get properly linked.

I just checked versiontracker and macupdates, as well as the official apple site. Apple has the correct info, and link from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ takes one to Lorenzo's site. You are correct however, about versiontracker. But, I'm not sure I want sites that look that that, to have my email address. One the other hand, I'd be happy to "manually" check in with them from time to time and make sure that their information is correct.

Also, macupdates.com does not seem to have any info about grass gis. Michael, are you sure this is the site you are referring to?

http://www.macupdates.com/

Kirk R. Wythers
Dept. of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
email: kwythers@umn.edu
tel: 612.625.2261
fax: 612.625.5212

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Kirk,

Here is the URL that Lorenzo sent me for the macupdate listing
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11705)

Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402
USA

voice: 480-965-6262; fax: 480-965-7671
www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton

From: “Kirk R. Wythers” kwythers@umn.edu
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:55:00 -0600
To: Michael Barton michael.barton@asu.edu
Cc: grass devel grass5@grass.itc.it
Subject: Re: [GRASS5] need to correct listings on versiontracker and Macupdates

On Feb 9, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Michael Barton wrote:

Lorenzo Moretti just discovered that his binaries had been posted on versiontracker.com and macupdates.com mistakenly listing OpenOSX and Joshua Lacock as the developer. I just checked on versiontracker and now the link to GRASS 6.0 downloads a source file for GRASS 5.4. This is confusing to the many people who check this site. It would be a very good thing to have GRASS for OSX listed on these sites, but we need to make sure that the correct contact information, including the main GRASS website is properly listed and the development team credited. I sent a note to version tracker to correct the current errors, but wondered if perhaps I or someone (Kirk??) should sign up with these places to make sure that the current releases, change logs, etc. get properly linked.

I just checked versiontracker and macupdates, as well as the official apple site. Apple has the correct info, and link from http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ takes one to Lorenzo’s site. You are correct however, about versiontracker. But, I’m not sure I want sites that look that that, to have my email address. One the other hand, I’d be happy to “manually” check in with them from time to time and make sure that their information is correct.

Also, macupdates.com does not seem to have any info about grass gis. Michael, are you sure this is the site you are referring to?

http://www.macupdates.com/

Kirk R. Wythers
Dept. of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
email: kwythers@umn.edu
tel: 612.625.2261
fax: 612.625.5212