This is sort of beginning to sound like what we already have. That is, we have a button on the web site that downloads a demo data set that is already organized in a location and mapset.
Michael ____________________ C. Michael Barton Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change Head, Graduate Faculty in Complex Adaptive Systems Science Arizona State University voice: 480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-965-8130/727-9746 (CSDC) fax: 480-965-7671 (SHESC), 480-727-0709 (CSDC) www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu > On Jan 30, 2015, at 3:19 AM, Rainer M Krug <rai...@krugs.de> wrote: > > Yann Chemin <yche...@gmail.com> writes: > >> +1 for a button, but I am not sure sure a data download is that >> necessary... > > I think a download button would be useful as the demo location should be > in the home directory so that the user can play with it. > > The disadvantage would be that the user has to be online for this. A > compromise could be to have > > a) an archived location in package form, so that the archive is > installed but not the location. This would be an optional package. > > b) A button which, depending on whether the grass-demodata package has been > installed, extracts the archived location into the home directory or, > if it has not been installed, suggests to download it. > > Cheers, > > Rainer > >> The button might just be a script creating a (several?) empty Location(s?) >> in a directory that the user can choose. > > > >> >> >> >> On 30 January 2015 at 15:20, Moritz Lennert <mlenn...@club.worldonline.be> >> wrote: >> >>> On 29/01/15 17:43, Vaclav Petras wrote: >>> >>>> On the MS Windows installer takes care of that by copying demo Location >>>> to newly created grassdata dir in Documents and creating the rc file. Is >>>> this enough? If not why? And do we want to do something similar for >>>> cases when installation is not done by GRASS GIS? If startup detects no >>>> grassdata it could just create the dir and copy the demo Location there, >>>> so the only thing needed is to press Start button. >>>> >>> >>> Don't forget that in many GNU/Linux distributions data is separated from >>> applications in the packaging. So, either we have to tell users to install >>> a specific data package (e.g. grass-demodata) or the startup screen needs a >>> button: "Download and unpack demo data". >>> >>> Moritz >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> grass-dev mailing list >>> grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev >>> > > -- > Rainer M. Krug > email: Rainer<at>krugs<dot>de > PGP: 0x0F52F982 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev