[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #118: r.patch fails on WinGRASS RC6 and earlier

[Moritz Lennert]

On 09/04/08 18:07, Michael Barton wrote:
> Actually, WinGRASS RC6 works pretty well on vista. This is the first gotcha
> we've encountered with the new build.

Good to hear. It would be interesting to collect these Vista issues to 
see if there is any specific pattern which might explain the cause.

Moritz

> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On 4/9/08 1:41 AM, "GRASS GIS" <trac at osgeo.org> wrote:
> 
>> #118: r.patch fails on WinGRASS RC6 and earlier
>> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>>   Reporter:  cmbarton  |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
>>       Type:  defect    |      Status:  new
>>   Priority:  critical  |   Milestone:  6.3.0
>>  Component:  default   |     Version:  6.3.0 RCs
>> Resolution:            |    Keywords:
>> -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
>> Comment (by 4everskiff):
>>
>>  Replying to [comment:2 cmbarton]:
>>> Marco,
>>>
>>> It's failed on several student machines here. I don't have a windows
>>  box, but will ask others to try. One of the systems that it failed on is
>>  running Vista. I don't know if another one is Vista or XP.
>>> Michael
>>  Hi Michael,
>>
>>  I think that Vista is the key. I build and test WinGRASS on XP, so I
>>  cannot figure out how does it run on Vista. This links to an issue I
>>  already pointed out in the list: it's a fact that any professionist or
>>  scientist who works on Windows actually still uses xp or 2000, but the
>>  future is on Vista, since new machines (specially notebooks) seem to not
>>  work with xp, due to unreleased libraries for xp to manage new HD
>>  architectures. Should we start to think to build on both Vista and XP, and
>>  thus release two versions of WinGRASS? I think that, at least, we need to
>>  intensively test on Vista.
>>
>>  See also Glynn's point of view: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-
>>  dev/2008-March/036820.html
>>
>>  Marco
> 
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