Hello, Since I'm using GRASS(6.4.0RC6) concurrently with other software suites for image pre-processing, I'd like to propose an enhancement that will encourage some interesting applications of GRASS GIS combined with other tools that setup a working environment like grass.
At the moment I'm using system's LD_LIBRARY_PATH for adding specific extra libs, and GRASS_ADDON_PATH to add extra scripts and executables I want to use within GRASS GIS. Especially for the case of some specific libraries, these are mostly useful within the data analysis session -- and are not useful as system-wide libraries, so I ended up with a custom Init.sh script that set them for me within the GRASS session. To enable a generic concurrent use of other software tools within the GRASS session, maybe we can enable Init.sh to read two new environmental variables: GRASS_EXTRA_PATH and GRASS_EXTRA_LIB, to be set by the user before the session, and then to be added to the PATH and GRASS_LD_LIBRARY_PATH by the Init.sh. Maybe there is a more smart or more safe way to do it, this is just an idea from which to start on. Regards, Alessandro -- Alessandro Frigeri, PhD University of Perugia, Italy _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
