[GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS GUI

[Michael Barton]

On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:00 AM, <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org 
 > wrote:

> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:21:29 +0100
> From: Martin Landa <landa.martin at gmail.com>
> Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: GRASS GUI
> To: Mohammed Rashad <rashadkm at gmail.com>
> Cc: GRASS developers list <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> Hi,
>
> 2009/2/17 Mohammed Rashad <rashadkm at gmail.com>:
>> i am planning of building a FOX GUI using c++ for GRASS, FOX is  
>> better than
>> wxPython and also cross platform. it also had backward  
>> compatilblity. i
>> think it will be a sucess..
>
> Well, good luck. I don't know FOX toolkit enough to claim that "it's
> better then..." ;-)
>
>> I have no write acess to any grass repository. I dont need it know,  
>> but
>> during my work of new GUI i need it.
>> How i will place the code on GRASS svn. ??
>>
>> Do I have to upload my code to some other webpage and inform other
>> developers , so that i can get support and work in the community.
>> Can i add my codes to GRASS after testing.???
>
> Put your code to
>
> grass-addons/gui/
>
> See for detailed information
>
> http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/HowToContribute#WriteaccesstotheGRASS-Addons-SVNrepository
>
> Martin
>
> -- 
> Martin Landa <landa.martin gmail.com> * http://gama.fsv.cvut.cz/~landa

I might point out that developing and maintaining the GUI for GRASS is  
a pretty big task. Martin calculated a while back that we've got over  
40,000 lines of code in the wxPython GUI.

My perspective is that what would help the most with a GRASS interface  
would to have additional coders on the GUI team rather than yet  
another competing GUI.

Michael