[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1178: WinGrass: g.extension - problem with path to $GISBASE

[GRASS GIS]

#1178: WinGrass: g.extension - problem with path to $GISBASE
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 Reporter:  hellik                                             |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect                                             |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major                                              |   Milestone:  6.4.1                    
Component:  Installation                                       |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:  wingrass, g.extension, path, installation, addons  |    Platform:  MSWindows Vista          
      Cpu:  x86-32                                             |  
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Comment(by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:14 hellik]:
 > p.s. noted that this is a statical approach, but at the moment
 > it's a chance to test g.extension in wingrass. later on - after
 > testing g.extension - it could be changed into a dynamically
 > approach as described in comment:7

 right, notice in the above comment:7 you get:
 {{{
 %~s1     =      C:\PROGRA~1\GRASS-~2\
 }}}

 as you have more than 1 grass installed. Of course people will add and
 remove different grasses after the initial install, so setting it to the
 shortened version as it was at install time is not ideal. I can even
 imagine someone downloading multiple versions of WinGrass  and trying to
 run both the installers at the same time, with interesting results if
 GRASS-~1 suddenly becomes GRASS-~2 as far as the file system is concerned.


 Hamish


 ps- why not "C:\Program Files\GRASS-6.4.SVN" ? -64- looks a little weird
 to me and could be confused with 64bit. does the .4 or .svn get mistaken
 for a file type? On the other hand, final \GRASS-64 (or is it GRASS-640?)
 fits into 8.3 already which avoids some of the shortname headaches. Same
 for the names in the Start menu structure.

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Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1178#comment:16>
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