[GRASS-dev] Wingrass and TclTk

[Michael Barton]

Most of these shell scripts are not in the menu system because they require
external programs that are not GRASS dependencies. Unless you are planning
for Windows users to run these from the command line, you can eliminate many
of these.

Michael


On 11/1/07 3:01 AM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 3. Additional utilities:
> 
> avcimport  v.in.e00
> cs2cs   m.proj, r.tileset, v.in.garmin, v.in.gpsbabel
> curl   r.in.wms
> e00conv   v.in.e00
> fc-list   mkftcap
> gardump   v.in.garmin
> gdal_translate  d.out.file, r.out.gdal.sh
> gdalinfo  i.in.spotvgt, r.out.gdal.sh
> gdalwarp  r.in.aster, r.in.wms
> gnuplot   i.spectral
> gpsbabel  v.in.gpsbabel
> gpstrans  v.in.garmin
> ldd   v.in.wfs
> lynx   v.in.wfs
> man   g.manual
> ogrinfo   v.in.wfs
> perl   d.monsize
> pngtopnm  d.out.gpsdrive
> pnmtojpeg  d.out.gpsdrive
> sqlite3   v.db.join
> sync   d.out.gpsdrive
> unzip   r.in.srtm
> wget   r.in.wms
> wms.download  r.in.wms
> wms.request  r.in.wms
> xgraph   d.polar
> xml2   r.in.wms
> 
> BTW, the use of "ldd" by v.in.wfs is entirely bogus:
> 
> # xerces support compiled in?
> OGRINFO=`which ogrinfo`
> if [ -z "`ldd $OGRINFO | grep xerces`" ] ; then
>  g.message -e "OGR needs to be compiled with xerces-c support"
>  exit 1
> fi
> 
> This needs to be changed to something which will work on other
> platforms. Does "gdalinfo --formats" suffice?
> 
> Also, we don't really need all three of lynx, wget and curl; any one
> of those would suffice.

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Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology
Director of Graduate Studies
School of Human Evolution & Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity
Arizona State University

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