[GRASS-dev] Re: wx init.sh needs updating

[Michael Barton]

Sounds like this needs to be updated soon. I'm surprised that it doesn't
kick out an error for the native Windows version.

Michael


On 8/7/07 10:07 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <kyngchaos at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> I started messing around with a python replacement for init.sh,
>> just to see
>> what is needed. It is going pretty well, but tedious. Once done (and
>> probably won't work right off) it could be a good opportunity to
>> clean up
>> the start up script for GRASS. Thinking ahead to a time when the
>> same script
>> can start GRASS on all platforms.
>> 
>> Michael
>> 
> Yeah, I just noticed a another oddity in init.sh related to wx - the
> gui dependency test is still based on X.  While wxpython on other
> 'nix platforms may need X, it doesn't on OSX, and probably not on
> Windows either.  Summarized:
> 
> if DISPLAY set (though it may be set but no X is available, at least
> on OSX)
>    test gui dependency - python for wx, wish for tcltk
>    if it fails
>      warn that *wish* doesn't work (oops)
> else
>    no gui possible
>    if a gui is set
>      warn that *X* is not available, and there a gui is not possible
> (oops again)
> 
> Instead of testing the gui dependency first, maybe this should test
> the gui setting first:
> 
> case GRASS_GUI:
>    tcltk, etc)
>      test X availability
>      or better, ignore DISPLAY and test only wish - if it works, X is
> implied, or whatever graphical base needed (this would take care of
> native tcltk implementations, like Aqua or Windows, not that they
> work well)
>    wx)
>      test python availability (X implied if needed - as long as
> python works)
> 
> 
> ...just some thoughts...
> 
> -----
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> 
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> 
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> 
> 

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