[GRASS-dev] v.type.sh question - important for 6.4 release

[Michael Barton]

On Mar 11, 2009, at 4:23 AM, Glynn Clements wrote:

>
> Michael Barton wrote:
>
>> Because the way that v.type works makes it unusable in a GUI, Hamish
>> wrote a script wrapper that DOES work in the GUI. Logically, it is
>> placed in $GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts.
>>
>> However, windows cannot execute it there. I'm not sure if it is
>> because it needs to have a *.exe put on the end or because it DOES
>> have a *.exe and the GUI doesn't reference it correctly. I'm not sure
>> if it just needs to be renamed (i.e., drop the .sh), or moved to the
>> main $GISBASE/script directory, or what. But I bet that it is pretty
>> easy to fix this for windows. I just don't know what to do.
>>
>> If someone could offer advice, I could get it working for the 6.4
>> release.
>
> The way that we normally make shell scripts work on Windows is to
> provide a .bat file which explicitly invokes the script via $GRASS_SH.
>
> On Windows, the $GISBASE/bin directory will contain a .bat file for
> each script in the $GISBASE/scripts directory. These are created using
> the scripts/windows_launch.bat file as a template.
>
> It may suffice to add $GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts/v.type.sh.bat. If that
> doesn't work, add an "if windows ..." case to gis.m's "execute"
> function, which invokes the script via $env(GRASS_SH).
>
> --  
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>

This sounds good. Two questions.

1) How can we get the *.bat files to be generated for files in the  
$GISBASE/ext/gui/scripts folder?
2) Can v.type.sh.bat be called by just specifying v.type.sh? Or do you  
need to fully specify the *.bat extension?

Thanks
Michael