On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:50 PM Martin Landa <landa.mar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > po 7. 1. 2019 v 21:40 odesílatel Markus Metz > <markus.metz.gisw...@gmail.com> napsal: > > What is the reason to include the point release number in the path: %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass-7.4.2\lib ? > > probably inspired by possibility to install various GRASS versions in parallel.
The mailing list is full of recommendations to use the latest released GRASS7 version. Devs know how to use different GRASS7 versions in parallel, but users should use the latest released GRASS7 version. This implies %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass7\. > > > Why not > > %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass-7.4\* > > or even > > %OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\grass\grass7\* > > > > The objective is to update GRASS7 and QGIS would not need to be updated, QGIS could use a new GRASS7 version with bug fixes and enhancements without the need to update QGIS itself. > > Make sense. We could do this change probably before 7.6.0RC2. But then > this change should also affect lib names (but what about other > platforms?), eg. libgrass_7.6.dll, see related issue [1]. > > Any opinions? Considering the GRASS release history it makes sense to keep the minor version (y), but point releases (z) are only bugfix releases, no need to keep z. Markus M > > Ma > > [1] https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/3718 > > -- > Martin Landa > http://geo.fsv.cvut.cz/gwiki/Landa > http://gismentors.cz/mentors/landa
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