[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #905: WinGrass: include patched msys.bat in the WinGrass-Installer

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#905: WinGrass: include patched msys.bat in the WinGrass-Installer
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  Reporter:  hellik           |       Owner:  grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org
      Type:  enhancement      |      Status:  closed                   
  Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  6.4.0                    
 Component:  Packaging        |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
Resolution:  fixed            |    Keywords:  wingrass, msys           
  Platform:  MSWindows Vista  |         Cpu:  Unspecified              
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Comment (by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:2 hamish]:
 > In CompileOnWindows it mentions that trunk wants PYTHONPATH to be set as
 part of msys.bat. Is that still valid?

 I don't think that it was ever valid. If PYTHONPATH is set anywhere, it
 probably ought to be in grass70.bat.

 And where does msys.bat come into this? A binary version of 7.0 shouldn't
 even include MSys; with the shell scripts having been converted to Python,
 it's unnecessary.

 Even 6.x probably shouldn't be using msys.bat. The default shell on
 Windows should be %COMSPEC% or cmd.exe. If you want to offer bash as an
 alternative, run it in a Windows console, not the brain-dead rxvt port
 which doesn't work with anything (mostly because it's not a tty according
 to isatty()).

 We '''have''' to include MSys in 6.x for the shell scripts, but that
 doesn't mean that we have to use it for anything else.

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