[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] Error when running a scrip in Windows-WinGRASS

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:29 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> Time to backport the GRASS 7 build system to GRASS 6? How complicated
>> to you expect that to be?
>
> Not very complicated; you just have to abandon support for shell
> scripts (the 7.0 build system only supports Python scripts).
>
> Supporting both Python scripts and shell scripts in the same build
> system would be complicated, which is why I gave up trying for 7.0.

This sounds like a showstopper for GRASS 6.

> There are some other things in 6.x which the 7.0 build system doesn't
> support. E.g. r.terraflow only supports float; having both short and
> float versions built from the same source code was too complicated, so
> that feature was removed.

That sounds ok to me.

Markus