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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Hi Glynn,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for the explanation.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since we are talking about, why an interpretated language for the GUI and not, for example, QT-OpenSource (that is compiled, cross-platform, GPL and has also Python bindings)? It's not a critic, just curiosity ;-)</FONT></DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>Marco</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS: I didn't ignore your last e-mail about locking on Win; I'm just waiting to finish the new MSYS environment and then work again on the GRASS code...</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Da:</B> Glynn Clements [mailto:glynn@gclements.plus.com]<BR><B>Inviato:</B> ven 06/06/2008 3.19<BR><B>A:</B> marco.pasetti@alice.it<BR><B>Cc:</B> Michael Barton; grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org<BR><B>Oggetto:</B> Re: [GRASS-dev] WinGRASS Plans<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>Marco Pasetti wrote:<BR><BR>> > Maybe this is what you have in mind, but I think that the wx-config is<BR>> > only<BR>> > needed for compiling vdigit, not for using it.<BR>><BR>> Good! sorry, confused: I always thought that Python was an interpreted<BR>> language.<BR><BR>It is. But it also supports extension through binary modules<BR>(libraries) written in e.g. C or C++.<BR><BR>> I don't know anything about the new vdigit: does it have some C or<BR>> C++ code parts to be compiled in Python?<BR><BR>The vdigit module has a mixture of C++ and Python code. The C++ code<BR>is compiled into a binary module (.so, .dll); you need to configure<BR>with --with-wxwidgets, which needs wx-config to get the compilation<BR>and linking switches for the C++ code.<BR><BR>--<BR>Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com><BR></FONT></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>