R: [GRASS-dev] WinGRASS Plans

Michael Barton michael.barton at asu.edu
Sat Jun 7 17:20:38 EDT 2008


Marco,

You can read the history of the discussions that led to wxPython on the
GRASS WIKI.

Michael


On 6/6/08 1:04 AM, "marco.pasetti at alice.it" <marco.pasetti at alice.it> wrote:

> Hi Glynn,
>  
> Thanks for the explanation.
> Since we are talking about, why an interpretated language for the GUI and not,
> for example, QT-OpenSource (that is compiled, cross-platform, GPL and has also
> Python bindings)? It's not a critic, just curiosity ;-)
>  
> Marco
>  
> PS: I didn't ignore your last e-mail about locking on Win; I'm just waiting to
> finish the new MSYS environment and then work again on the GRASS code...
>  
> 
> 
> Da: Glynn Clements [mailto:glynn at gclements.plus.com]
> Inviato: ven 06/06/2008 3.19
> A: marco.pasetti at alice.it
> Cc: Michael Barton; grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Oggetto: Re: [GRASS-dev] WinGRASS Plans
> 
> 
> 
> Marco Pasetti wrote:
> 
>>> > > Maybe this is what you have in mind, but I think that the wx-config is
>>> > > only
>>> > > needed for compiling vdigit, not for using it.
>> >
>> > Good! sorry, confused: I always thought that Python was an interpreted
>> > language.
> 
> It is. But it also supports extension through binary modules
> (libraries) written in e.g. C or C++.
> 
>> > I don't know anything about the new vdigit: does it have some C or
>> > C++ code parts to be compiled in Python?
> 
> The vdigit module has a mixture of C++ and Python code. The C++ code
> is compiled into a binary module (.so, .dll); you need to configure
> with --with-wxwidgets, which needs wx-config to get the compilation
> and linking switches for the C++ code.
> 
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
> 

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