[GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI

[David Finlayson]

I was going to suggest we build against both on Debuan/Ubuntu, but I
just noticed that tk8.3 is incompatible with tk8.4 on Ubuntu systems
(selecting one in Synaptic removes the other)

David

On 5/24/06, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> I think the options database is an 8.4 addition (Cedric can verify). I'm
> using 8.4 docs so I don't know what else, but wouldn't be surprised if there
> are some.
>
> I think that Glynn is fixing (or maybe has fixed) NVIZ. Also, I have a grad
> student who is using Debian (I can ask him the distro when he gets in) and
> the current GIS Manager with no problem. ????
>
> Michael
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> > From: Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>
> > Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 07:15:18 +1200
> > To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>
> > Cc: <grass-bugs at intevation.de>, <grass-dev at grass.itc.it>
> > Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] [bug #4493] (grass) gis.m fails to start GUI
> >
> >> TclTk 8.4.01 was released September 2002, when GRASS 4.something was
> >> still current and GRASS 5 was in development. TclTk 8.5 is now in beta
> >> and we are now talking about switching to a new GUI platform. TclTk is
> >> open source and anyone can update to at least an old version of 8.4.
> >>
> >> There are just not enough of us to maintain compatibility so far back
> >> into prior versions, and it would affect both usability and appearance
> >> of the GUI. We are maintaining the old d.m, which I believe is
> >> compatible with 8.3 at least and maybe back to 8.1. The fixes to
> >> maintain backward compatibility 4 years back are more than I have time
> >> to do (especially to try and find workarounds for functionality from
> >> 8.4 that we are using) and is very low on my priority list.
> >
> > note NVIZ still doesn't work 100% with TclTk 8.4 on debian. This is
> > because of bugs which should be fixed, but in the mean time we are left
> > with a no-win compromise, either NVIZ working or gis.m working; not both.
> >
> > what else besides "-offrelief" isn't tcltk 8.3 compatible in gis.m?
> > If it is small work to support 8.3, we should try.
> >
> >
> > Hamish
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David Finlayson