[GRASS-dev] r 43228 "note 'wx' in init.sh and wxGUI in g.gui"

Martin Landa landa.martin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 24 07:15:16 EDT 2010


Hi,

2010/8/24 Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com>:
> re. https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/changeset/43228,
>
> {{{
>             echo "Environment variables relevant for startup:"
> -            echo "  GRASS_GUI                      select GUI (text, gui, tcltk, oldtcltk, wxpython)"
> +            echo "  GRASS_GUI                      select GUI (text, gui, tcltk, oldtcltk, wxpython, wx)"
> }}}
>
>
> I would not advertise that
>  $ GRASS_GUI=wx grass64
> actually works. If it is to work, I would just rather it silently
> translated itself to the full name, as "grass64 -wx" expands itself to
> -wxpython interally. Advertising it risks that people will try to set
> the g.gisenv version to the short name as well, and the subsequent
> confusion and problems of not having a single internal name for it.
>
> read sloppy, write strict, and gently guide people to use the canonical
> names for things..

ok, reverted in r43229.

Martin

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