[GRASS-dev] Re: #12: gis.m->Help->About system doesn't work

[Patton, Eric]

Patton, Eric wrote:

> >Sounds like we don't really need this then. Anyone object to me  
> >getting rid of this menu entry?
> 
> >Michael
> 
> Not me. I never have need for this feature. Hints for augmenting bug
> reports with system info can just be added to the bug reporting
> section of the WIKI if need be.

>How is the user supposed to get that information?

>Asking the user to run tclsh manually and get the contents of
>$tcl_platform introduces a risk that they might run the wrong tclsh
>(quite easily done on Windows and MacOSX systems, where you may have
>both "native" and "Unix" versions of Tcl/Tk installed).

>-- 
>Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>

Couldn't that information be supplied through standard Unix commands 
(asking out of ignorance, I don't really know)?

I don't think I've ever seen an instance where the output from 
'About System' has ever been used in a bug report; not that it couldn't,
of course.

~ Eric.
a bug report