[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS GIS] #1345: backport ctypes to relbr64

[GRASS GIS]

#1345: backport ctypes to relbr64
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 Reporter:  hamish         |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task           |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major          |   Milestone:  6.4.2                    
Component:  Python ctypes  |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:                 |    Platform:  All                      
      Cpu:  All            |  
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Comment(by martinl):

 Replying to [ticket:1345 hamish]:

 > (Although in 6.x-stable I'd totally oppose replacing the existing shell
 scripts/ with their many many years of testing & stabilization)

 my opinion is different as I mentioned earlier, you are right that bash
 scripts could be more stable than their python version. Anyway we are
 discovering new and new bugs in bash scripts (which is normal), some of
 them are hard to fix, see e.g. #1310. Unfortunately most of them are quite
 critical. Some of them are remaining open, generally speaking maintaining
 bash scripts for winGRASS is a big pain. Bearing in mind our man power in
 GRASS developer team I think it would be better solution to replace bash
 scripts by python in devbr6. Fix bugs which has been introduced during
 conversion from Bash script (which is easy). Make them solid and working
 on Windows. And later to backported them to relbr64. It's just my opinion.
 I would be happy to hear also other devs from the community.

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