On my way out of town. I have 3 quick comments 1) How the binary installers are packaged should not affect the 6.3.0 release. IMHO, go for it.
2) A separate dependency installer is an excellent idea for Windows. That is what has been done on the Mac for years and is very successful. 3) Currently, while the wxPython GUI is in development, I think that is is quite OK to require testers to install Python (and maybe wxPython), especially since this is quite easy. Ultimately, I would hope that compiling GRASS would also run Python distutilities (or something like that) to provide a portable binary GUI that *doesn't* require installing Python or anything else. Michael On 4/16/08 1:50 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:47:15 +0200 > From: "Martin Landa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: R: R: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 6.3.0 to be released > To: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Marco, > > 2008/4/16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Martin, do you think that we could add the needed python files into the >>> 6.3.0 windows package, in order to let users start the pyGUI without the >>> need to install python stuffs by themselves? >> >> -1 >> >> I don't think we should bloat the installer with everything that people >> might need. It really is not difficult to download and install the >> python installers... >> >> The only thing we could consider is to add an option to automatically >> download and install the python stuff, but not add it to our installer >> directly. > > I agree here with Moritz. Python/wxPython installation process on > Windows seems to me to be quite simple. I would not expect that the > user how is not able to install e.g. Python will be able to use GRASS > at the end;-) > > Martin __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
