Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 39, Issue 18

[Michael Barton]

On Jul 6, 2009, at 9:00 AM, [hidden email] wrote:

> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:45:55 +0200
> From: Martin Landa <[hidden email]>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] g.extension.add available to install GRASS
>        Addons SVN      modules (GEM replacement)
> To: Hamish <[hidden email]>
> Cc: Glynn Clements <[hidden email]>,  GRASS developers list
>        <[hidden email]>,    William Kyngesburye
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> Hi,
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> 2009/7/6 Hamish <[hidden email]>:
>> perhaps default to ~/.grass/addons/ ?
>>
>> (together with rename of .grassrc7 in trunk (it's not a rc file).
>> call that ~/.grass/init ? or?)
>
> I like the idea of `.grass` directory. There is also .grasswx7 which
> could be moved to `.grass/wx`.
>
> Martin

For some crazy reason directories starting with "." are invisible to  
normal Mac users. For a Mac, it would be better to have this in /
Library/Application Support/Grass.

Michael
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[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2009/7/6 Michael Barton <[hidden email]>:
> For some crazy reason directories starting with "." are invisible to normal

"crazy"? - hidden files and directories starts in Unix-like
environments with '.' [1]. It's standard approach to store application
settings in the hidden files.

Martin

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_files

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[William Kyngesburye]

See my earlier reply about the Mac setting, and the idea in general.

On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

>>
>> I like the idea of `.grass` directory. There is also .grasswx7 which
>> could be moved to `.grass/wx`.
>>
>> Martin
>
> For some crazy reason directories starting with "." are invisible to  
> normal Mac users. For a Mac, it would be better to have this in /
> Library/Application Support/Grass.
>
> Michael
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[Michael Barton]

I agree

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On Jul 6, 2009, at 11:23 AM, William Kyngesburye wrote:

> See my earlier reply about the Mac setting, and the idea in general.
>
> On Jul 6, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
>
>>>
>>> I like the idea of `.grass` directory. There is also .grasswx7 which
>>> could be moved to `.grass/wx`.
>>>
>>> Martin
>>
>> For some crazy reason directories starting with "." are invisible to
>> normal Mac users. For a Mac, it would be better to have this in /
>> Library/Application Support/Grass.
>>
>> Michael
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[Glynn Clements]

Michael Barton wrote:

> >> perhaps default to ~/.grass/addons/ ?
> >>
> >> (together with rename of .grassrc7 in trunk (it's not a rc file).
> >> call that ~/.grass/init ? or?)
> >
> > I like the idea of `.grass` directory. There is also .grasswx7 which
> > could be moved to `.grass/wx`.
>
> For some crazy reason directories starting with "." are invisible to  
> normal Mac users. For a Mac, it would be better to have this in /
> Library/Application Support/Grass.

Wouldn't that be system-wide? It should be per-user.

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