[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 21, Issue 30

[Michael Barton]

I understand about SWIG. Thanks for the clarification about the  
digitizer.

But what would the --with-wxpython switch actually do?

Michael
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 5:17 AM, Martin Landa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> 2008/1/14, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I added --with-wxpython option to configure script. wxPython  
>>> requires
>>> --with-python, also checks for python version >= 2.4 and wxpython >=
>>> 2.8.
>
>> Currently, the wxPython GUI needs a separate installation of Python
>> and wxPython. I don't think the Python SWIG interface makes any
>> difference to the GUI (or does it do something with the digitizing
>> module?). So what does this switch do?
>
> --with-python can enable improved SWIG interface (swig/python) in the
> future. For --with-wxpython you need to enable also --with-python
> since wxPython requires Python of course. The wx digitization tool
> also uses minimalistic SWIG interface, so swig is also needed. BTW,
> the is no option --with-swig, should be?
>
> Martin
>
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