[GRASS-dev] Re: gis.m issues

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:18:04AM -0700, syd visser wrote:
> We are moving over to Python and wxPython for most of our development 
> work and therefore would definitely be in favor of grass going in that 
> direction.

It did so last night :-) I submitted the updated GRASS 5's wxPython
bindings to GRASS 6.1-CVS. See also:
 http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/wiki/GRASS_and_Python

> I noticed there are some VTK modules in grass now.
> Has anyone looked at what Enthought (  http://www.enthought.com/ ) is 
> doing using Python and wxPython especially MayaVi2 (3D visualization 
> using VTK) https://svn.enthought.com/enthought/wiki/MayaVi.

It would be very nice to have more people working on
Python bindings.

Markus

> Syd
> 
> 
> > From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 14:24:39 +1200
> > To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> > Cc: <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: Re: gis.m issues
> >
> > Michael Barton wrote:
> >
> 
> >I've done considerable background research and strongly favor wxPython.
> >Jachym, Trevor, and David Finlayson seem on board on this. Glynn is 
> overall
> >neutral, though favoring PyGTK a bit. I'm sold on the Python platform and
> >think the wxWidgets extension is better cross-platform. I don't know 
> whether
> >GTK has some better widgets or not, but wxPython has more than we need for
> >now and the future.
> 
> >WxPython for Linux uses GTK; it uses native Mac and Windows widgets on 
> those
> >platforms. AFAICT, wxPython creates a very nice interface in all supported
> >platforms using the same code. There are a few sections that are 
> specific to
> >Windows, Linux, or Mac, but they are easy to avoid.
> 
> >So that's what I think. Jachym, Trevor, David, and I are trying to 
> create a
> >prototype wxPython interface to see if it works OK on Mac, Linux, and
> >Windows before we completely commit to it, however.
> 
> >I'm gone on vacation for a week and a half, but will be working on this
> >afterwards, going through the new book on wxPython.
> 
> >Cheers,
> >Michael
> 
> >__________________________________________
> >Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
> >School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> >Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
> >Arizona State University
> 
> >phone: 480-965-6213
> >fax: 480-965-7671
> >www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton
> 
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> 
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