[GRASS-dev] Python GUI requirements

[Michael Barton]

Agree. This was the basis of my question too.

Michael
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On Jan 14, 2008, at 7:28 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

>>
>> now gui/Makefile checks for wxPython instead of Python. wxPython  
>> stuff
>> is installed only if --with-wxpython is given.
>
> I think Glynn's point was that the installation should simply  be
> unconditional with no checks in gui/Makefile - the wxPython stuff  
> is just
> scripts and doesn't need Python to be installed on the compilation  
> system
> for the scripts to be processed in any way (unlike C compiling) - the
> requirement for wxPython is only on the system that GRASS is run on  
> so it
> should be a runtime check rather than a comile-time check.
>
> Of course if the wxPython stuff does require Python on the compilation
> system, then what I've said is totally wrong...
>
> Paul