[GRASS5] Re:

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:20:00PM +0700, Justin Hickey wrote:
> Hi Markus
> 
> Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Hi Mike & Justin,
> > 
> > maybe the report message should be completely removed as it is quite
> > clear (and to reduce mail traffic). What about this:
> > 
> >Sorry your version of Tcl/Tk libraries is 7.6 and is too old for GRASS.
> >GRASS requires a TCL/TK libraries version of 8.0 or later.
> >Reverting default settings back to GRASS text mode interface.
> >Switching to text mode now
> > 
> > This is the slightly modified original text. Especially "libraries"
> > should me mentioned. Then it should be clear.
> 
> My only problem with this is that if the Tcl/Tk script fails for any
> other reason, then the message is:
> 
>  Switching to text mode now
> 
> Not a very useful message. Currently, we do not check for any other
> errors in the script but I at least wanted to have users contact the
> developers if an error occured that was not expected. 
Aha, I see. So no (easy!) way to distinct between the version error
and other tcl/tk errors?

> Also, we may add
> other error checking in the future. Anyway, it doesn't really matter.
> I'll remove if you think it is confusing. Perhaps we can change it to
> 
>  An error occured in the Tcl/Tk script.
>  Switching to text mode now.
> 
> Let me know what you decide and I'll change it appropriately.
Well, the version message is quite useful. In this case we should
keep the message as is (perhaps adding "libraries" to be very clear
here for newcomers).

Markus

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