[GRASS-dev] Updated WinGrass release installer now available

[Helena Mitasova]

just a note that the msys version is used a lot in my class although  
I haven't
really included it into assignments - I just let the students know  
that it exists and what
they can do with and it quickly gets used a lot for automating  
workflows.
And it has the advantage of introducing people to linux.

I don't have a problem at all with having both versions and two icons  
- it was clearly explained
on Marco's web page and did not cause too much confusion.

Helena

On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Paul Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Colin Nielsen wrote:
>
>> Question for those who are testing: do you prefer the msys version
>> (with a functioning terminal) or the other one (which runs
>> grass64.bat)? Both is probably confusing, but I don't want to remove
>> the older grass64.bat option without consultation from those who
>> created it on their specific reasons for it.
>
> The reason for it is so GRASS can be started on Windows without  
> having to install Msys. Msys is only needed for a few scripts -  
> with GRASS 7 where all the scripts have been converted to Python  
> there should be no need for Msys at all. Helena's argument about it  
> being helpful to have a mini-Unix environment with familiar Unix  
> commands is very valid though. But for testing/development purposes  
> I think it's best to leave the Msys commands out of the PATH as  
> having them installed can hide Unix-isms in GRASS - there was quite  
> a bit of work went into removing these a couple of years ago and  
> making GRASS truly native on Windows without the need for Msys.
> Hope that clarifies things a bit?
>
> Paul
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