[GRASS-dev] A portible shell for GRASS 7+ ?

[Wolf Bergenheim]

On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Finlayson wrote:
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> What do you think?
>

Sounds promising, but, personally I'd hate it. Why?

<rant>
First off one of the coolest things with grass is that I get my trusted 
old tcsh (which I have been using since 1996), I was delighted. This means 
that to do many things I don't need to learn anything new. I can use env 
variables and loops and whatnot, all things that I'm used to. I do realize 
that for people in mac or windows worlds or people new to computers don't 
know all this and for them it would be all the same. Secondly I'd need to 
learn python to do any scripting, which sucks. Thirdly I like to have all 
the gazillion of command-line programs that I have, to filter and do all 
kinds of magic from withing GRASS. I can also easily launch any non-grass 
application WITHOUT LEAVING THE GRASS SHELL. And my final argument is: Why 
would we re-invent the wheel? Command-line shells have been around for a 
very long time which means that a lot of effort has gone into them, and to 
be frank we don't have that many resources that we should use it on 
re-inventing the wheel.
</rant>

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