[GRASS-dev] WinGrass-Installer - definition of the destination folder?

[Helena Mitasova]

On Jan 21, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Hamish wrote:

> Helena wrote:
>> Just a feedback on the installer for WinGRASS - I was lucky that
>> everybody in the class managed to install GRASS from the working
>> version - so no problems so far and the first steps with wxGUI were
>> MUCH smoother than last semester, so all those little tweaks with
>> icons and other GUI issues helped.
> 
> great, and with time it will only get better..
> 
> 
>> There were 2 or 3 distance students who had to get the
>> newer svn version,
>> so it looks like now I am the only one confused about the
>> different WinGRASS installers -
>> 
>> - is r40456 broken ?
> 
> AFAIK just the GRASS wxGUI with MSys icon. There are still about 3 other
> icons giving ways in.
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/33237/

I see - that perfectly explains it, because that is what we are using.
Talking about MSys - I really like the wxGUI + MSys option as it
provides a nice way how to introduce people to linux,

Helena
> 
> 
>> P.S. one more thing - having WinGRASS and MacGRASS start with different
>> default GUI is really awkward and people have trouble figuring out
>> how to switch even after given instructions.
> 
> fwiw Config -> GRASS working environment -> Change default GUI  should
> now work everywhere. (but on wingrass the "Start wxGUI" and "Start tcl
> GUI" menu items/icons will still override that)
> 
> 
> Hamish
> 
> 
> 
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