[GRASS-dev] WinGrass7-installer + "GRASS 7.0.SVN with MSYS"-desktop-shortcut

[Glynn Clements]

Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote:

> > >the desktop-shortcut to start WinGrass7 with Msys is actuallay following:
> > >
> > >"C:\Program Files\GRASS-70-SVN\msys\msys.bat" "/grass/bin/grass70 -wxpython"
> > >(http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi#L624)
> > >
> > >I've tried a little different approaches to launch WinGrass7 with a msys-command-line , but no success at 
> > >the moment.
> > >
> >> maybe any hints?
> >
> >Create a batch file which sets SHELL to the full Windows path to MSys'
> >sh.exe then runs grass70.py
> 
> now I'm a little bit confused, because the installed C:\Program Files\GRASS-70-SVN\grass70.bat already
> does this:
> 
> "[...]
> rem Path to the shell command
> set GRASS_SH=%GISBASE%\msys\bin\sh.exe
> [...]
> %GRASS_PYTHON% "%GISBASE%\grass70.py" %*
> "

That doesn't set SHELL, which is what grass70.py uses to decide which
shell to run.

GRASS_SH is the program used for running shell scripts.

> in my original post (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2010-April/049998.html):
> 
> "in this windows-console you can start - if you want within a Grass7-session - python or a shell 
> (in this shell you have access to sed, awk, ...) and can use also all windows-commandline-tools."
> 
> so therefore I've suggested to remove the "WinGrass7 with msys-shortcut" because there is already a shell accessible.

There should be separate shortcuts for running GRASS with cmd.exe and
with sh.exe.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>