[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1166: r.tileset: projection string munching on wingrass

[GRASS GIS]

#1166: r.tileset: projection string munching on wingrass
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 Reporter:  hamish               |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  normal               |   Milestone:  6.4.1                    
Component:  Default              |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
 Keywords:  r.tileset, wingrass  |    Platform:  MSWindows XP             
      Cpu:  x86-64               |  
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Comment(by glynn):

 Replying to [comment:3 hamish]:
 >
 {{{
 GRASS 6.5> g.message "/"
 C:/PROGRA~1/GRASS-~1/msys
 }}}

 MSys converts any argument which "looks like" a filename to Windows syntax
 when executing any command outside of the MSys "filesystem". The "mkpath"
 command in Rules.make (in 7.0) relies upon this (via tools/g.echo) to
 construct a valid PYTHONPATH.

 This "feature" is one reason why shell scripts will never be robust on
 Windows. Any shell aiming for Unix-compatibility can't use native Windows
 filenames due to the use of ":" in *PATH variables, but Windows programs
 won't understand whatever Unix-style filenames it uses, so it has to
 perform translation. Which falls down when something which looks like a
 filename isn't one (and also when it needs to translate but doesn't; e.g.
 when Init.sh writes $GISDBASE into $GISRC, it doesn't get translated).

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