[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-SVN] r40881 - in grass/trunk: gui/wxpython/nviz gui/wxpython/vdigit lib/gis visualization/wximgview

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
...
>> I am unsure about the popen.c backport since the 6.5 version
>> differs significantly from trunk. (same with the recent spaw.c
>> fixes).
>
> Right; the popen.c replacement hasn't been back-ported (and probably
> shouldn't be), so there's no point in back-porting fixes to it.
>
> FWIW, popen.c should now be entirely unused in 6.5, and may as well be
> removed. I replaced all occurrences of G_popen() with popen() in
> r40834, and G_pclose() with pclose() in r40921, as G_popen() doesn't
> work at all on Windows.

I have done so to reduce the (file) noise.

> These should be back-ported to 6.4 after testing.

-> still TODO.

Markus