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

[Joel Pitt]

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From: Joel Pitt <joel.pitt at gmail.com>
Date: Jun 9, 2006 11:50 AM
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] A portible shell for GRASS 7+ ?
To: Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net>


I can see both sides and their benefits.

But I don't think we should force people to use a python shell since
alot of GRASS users are bash/tcsh wizards. I think we should combine
some ideas here.

In the thread "Python GUI toolkits" David mentioned an R or Matlab
style GUI - I like this, I also like the idea of being able to use
python to throw up custom graphs of GIS data (although I know R can do
this as well).

Perhaps we could create a GUI that allowed you to have multiple shells
open, R for GRASS, a bash shell, an IPython one.

Come to think of it there isn't any reason why these shells can't
exist on their own...

Hmm, seems I've come to the end of my train of thought.

-joel

On 6/9/06, Wolf Bergenheim <wolf+grass at bergenheim.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jun 2006, David Finlayson wrote:
> >
> > 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>


--
-Joel

"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
                -- Aeschylus


-- 
-Joel

"Wish not to seem, but to be, the best."
                -- Aeschylus