[GRASS-user] addons installation under GRASS 7.0-svn

[Michael Barton]

On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:00 AM, <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> <grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:23:13 +0200
> From: Nikos Alexandris <nikos.alexandris at felis.uni-freiburg.de>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] addons installation under GRASS 7.0-svn
> To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
> Cc: Rhot <rhot at rambler.ru>
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> Rhot wrote:
> 
>>> I understood, regarding to that new raster library in
>>> grass70 absolutely all addons in svn repo will be
>>> worthless in grass70 until they'll be updated. Is it so?
> 
> Hamish:
> 
>> perhaps not absolutely all, but between the C lib changes
>> and the (I hope hope temporary) removal of shell script
>> support, it is safe to say that most will need some
>> porting work.
> 
> Oh... :-O. Shell script(ing) ability completly removed in grass7x?
> 
> @devs: please keep the very minimum of shell script support if possible. Often 
> it is so much faster to work in the shell...
> 
> Nikos
> 
> Nikos
> 

I've been sort of out the dev loop for several months, but I'm pretty sure that 'lack of shell-script support' means that shell scripts are not currently recognized by the interface parser. That means that a shell script invoking GRASS will not produce an automatically generated wxPython GUI window. 

However, I'm pretty sure that shell scripts--like any other kind of language that can call GRASS--still can be used to invoke GRASS commands.

Michael

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