[GRASS-dev] QGIS winGRASS blank space problem

[Paul Kelly]

On Mon, 4 Jun 2007, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 03:36:16PM +0100, Paul Kelly wrote:
>> In general it's a pleasant surprise if some shell scripts to happen to
>> work OK on Windows, and IMHO shouldn't really be considered a bug if they
>> don't. I feel the fact that QGIS includes a copy of Msys with GRASS gives
>> the "illusion" of GRASS being more compatible with Windows than it really
>> is - the truly native WinGRASS we're working on is a more accurate
>> expression of GRASS's compatiblity with Windows as I see it.
>>
>
> Isn't that the case to try re-writing those scripts in Tcl which has
> the suitable path helpers to be independent from the platform?
> Just my 2 cents...

Yes although re-writing in Python has already been mentioned on the list 
so that's probably the more likely solution.

Paul