packagers' guidance on inclusion of small dataset into the GRASS GIS installation
Moritz Lennert <[email protected]>
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Hi Bas, Hi any other packages who might want to weigh in, I have a small question concerning the best way to include a very small dataset into the distribution of GRASS GIS. We are currently working on the revamping of the GRASS GIS GUI startup experience, and have the currently proposed solution is that GRASS GIS could start up automatically creating a grassdata database and a default lat-long location which would contain just a simple NaturalEarth world country boundaries dataset. In some OS (e.g. MS Windows), such a demolocation is included in the distribution, but in Debian it is deleted before installation (IIUC what happens in the rules file at [1]). IIRC, Debian does normally not allow data to be distributed with binaries. One option would be to put the data directly into the Python code creating this location. Would that be acceptable for Debian ? What kind of solution would you recommend ? Thanks for any hints you can give us ! Moritz [1] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-gis-team/grass/-/blob/master/debian/rules#L199 _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev