[GRASS-dev] finding things on the web

[Moritz Lennert]

On 09/02/08 19:43, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
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> On Feb 9, 2008, at 11:27 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
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>> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 11:00:34 -0600
>> From: "Gerald Nelson" <gnelson at uiuc.edu>
>> Subject: RE: [GRASS-dev] finding things on the web
>> To: "'Markus Neteler'" <neteler at osgeo.org>
>> Cc: 'GRASS developers list' <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
>> Message-ID: <006c01c86b3d$490b6600$3e40ae80 at ace.uiuc.edu>
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>> Yup. It would be good to have one page with relatively minimal 
>> content. Just
>> links to where things are. I like the look and feel of the
>> http://www.osgeo.org/grass page.
>>
>> By the way, one of the features of grass that has really grown on me 
>> in the
>> past 6 months (coming from a Windows/Arcgis environment) is the relative
>> ease of writing scripts to do things. This may be old hat to linux 
>> experts
>> but is not something that Windows types are used to doing. Anybody 
>> remember
>> the last time they wrote a .bat file? This is not mentioned anywhere 
>> on the
>> Info sheet. Just a thought.
>>
>> Jerry
> 
> If we can get everyone switched over from Bash to Python, Windows folks 
> can script too.


Well, Windows folks can script now, using .bat files (or shell if they 
use msys), but I agree that we should rather recommend everyone moving 
over to Python now for any new scripts.

Moritz

Moritz