[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #580: WinGRASS: $GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts/ require something like $(EXE) to run

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#580: WinGRASS: $GISBASE/etc/gui/scripts/ require something like $(EXE) to run
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  Reporter:  hamish        |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                      
  Priority:  blocker       |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  wxGUI         |     Version:  6.4.0 RCs                
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  wingrass                 
  Platform:  MSWindows XP  |         Cpu:  Unspecified              
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Comment (by cmbarton):

 Replying to [comment:21 glynn]:
 > Replying to [comment:18 hamish]:
 >
 > > All the wrapper scripts in there fail on wingrass.
 >
 > My first guess would be that something isn't setting shell=True in the
 Popen constructor.
 >
 > On Windows, shell=False (the default) only works for .exe files. If you
 want to be able to "run" .py, .bat etc files, you have to set shell=True.
 > [[BR]]
 [[BR]]
 On Mac we only need to supply the wxPython binaries to ensure that the
 correct version is run I think. But maybe william will know better.[[BR]]
 [[BR]]

 > [shell=True uses `cmd /c ...`, while shell=False calls !CreateProcess()
 directly.]
 >
 > lib/python/core.py has its own versions of Popen() and call() which
 default to shell=True on Windows (Unix should always use shell=False). The
 wx GUI should be doing something similar.

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