[GRASS-dev] Updated WinGrass release installer now available

[Colin Nielsen]

Yes that does clarify things and I figured there probably had been a
good reason for converting to a .bat file.

So given that lots of people like msys for various reasons, but that
we should make sure that is not required, is there a consensus as to
how should I set up the installer in terms of desktop and start menu
icons?

(As a side note when trying to use the GUI menu to switch the default
GUI I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:/GIS/GRASS-6-SVN/etc/wxpython/wxgui.py", line 515,
in OnMenuCmd

menuform.GUI().ParseCommand(cmd, parentframe=self)
  File
"c:\GIS\GRASS-6-SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\menuform.py",
line 1716, in ParseCommand

xml.sax.parseString( getInterfaceDescription(cmd[0]),
handler )
  File
"c:\GIS\GRASS-6-SVN\etc\wxpython\gui_modules\menuform.py",
line 1657, in getInterfaceDescription

raise IOError, _("Unable to fetch interface description for
command '%s'.") % cmd
IOError
:
Unable to fetch interface description for command
'g.change.gui.py'.
)

-Colin

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Paul Kelly
<paul-grass at stjohnspoint.co.uk> 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
>