hi all,
first of all: my questions were not only about NVIZ (or r.in.gdal segmentation fault, or other bugs)...were about installing, compiling, fixing bugs, modify configuration files, too spread documentation ..and so on... normal users commonly don't do that....just manipulate the softwares....of course i am learning much more about the system but new interested people will find this something too hard to deal with in their institutions (it affects the productivity...) and they even won't find time to do that...
thnks
From: Jeff Stubbs <cjstubbs@adelphia.net>
To: grasslist@baylor.edu
Subject: [GRASSLIST:2798] Re: mailing list for beginners
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:05:28 -0500On Mar 1, 2004, at 11:50 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:
James Plante wrote:
Really I was just saying that questions about NVIZ not working are not
usually 'beginner's questions' and there is no need for a separate list
for them.Well, as a beginner myself, I can say that questions about NVIZ may
truly be beginners' questions. Being principally a Mac user, I'm not
fluent with compilation of source code, so I obtained a binary
installation of GRASS 5.0.3 from OpenOSX.Yeah, but unfortunately there's a big difference between compiling
source code and compiling the NVIZ source code. The latter regularly
causes problems for people who otherwise have no problems compiling
source code.</lurk>
Excuse me for jumping into this conversation. As an unix and Grass newbie (Mac, print background), I find this list an invaluable tool for getting up to speed. I only discovered Grass in mid-January and not having a lot of spare time, I couldn't, for the life of me, get Grass to compile. Blame it on the lack of experience. Then I noticed Lorenzo's binaries were available. Within a day, I had the program running. Thanks Lorenzo. Not being a professional, I still have a steep learning curve ahead.
Now for the reason that I jumped into the conversation. Since I have Grass 5.3 running on my main partition, I would like to offer the services of my second partition to Lorenzo and the developer team as a test bed for OS X distributions. I just use it for testing Apple's OS patches before I apply them to my working partition. Perhaps, I could document all the steps and put them on the wiki page for my fellow OS Xers as a guide. Other thoughts?
Thanks for your time.
Jeff Stubbs
<lurk>
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