[GRASS-dev] 6.4.0 blocker bugs

Glynn Clements glynn at gclements.plus.com
Tue Jul 6 11:00:21 EDT 2010


Helena Mitasova wrote:

> >> I learned that we should await the ctypes port to get rid of SWIG?
> > 
> > SWIG is only used within GRASS for the wxGUI vdigit and nviz modules. 
> > It's also used to generate wrappers for programmers who wish to access
> > the libraries directly, but these aren't used by any part of GRASS.
> > 
> > I suggest disabling all of this in the final release. The vdigit and
> > nviz modules don't work on Windows, and aren't particularly robust on
> > other platforms (and being loaded in-process means that any problems
> > affect the GUI as a whole, not just the vdigit/nviz modules).
> 
> Glynn, 
> I assume you are talking about wxnviz here, not the TclTk based nviz
> which runs on windows just fine?

Correct.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>


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