[GRASS-dev] Re: [Qgis-user] Status of the qgis-grass plugin, esp. on Windows

[William Kyngesburye]

Don't forget OS X - the grass plugin is currently broken for OS X as a result of a "fix" for Windows:

http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3999

On Sep 9, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Paolo Cavallini wrote:

> Hi all.
> As qgis-grass-windows user know, we had a couple of nasty bugs [0],[1] preventing a
> proper use of GRASS within QGIS on Windows. One of the bugs seemed fixed upstream,
> but we still missed an osgeo4w package for it. We (Faunalia) do not use Windows, but
> we do a lot of courses, and many users have Windows machines, so we had the choice of
> either removing GRASS from our courses or get our hands dirty and debug GRASS and its
> QGIS plugin on Win. Of course we did the latter.
> We believe now everything should be solved, so all well. However, we would like to
> point out that:
> - a grass-dev package, built overnight, is missing from osgeo4w; we think this is
> quite bad, as testing on win lags very much behind in this way; of course grass-only
> users can install the standalone, but we think a complete environment is better; IOHO
> this should not be hard to set up, so we encourage GRASS maintainers to do so (AFAIK
> Martin Landa is working on this); of course we're ready to help if necessary
> - the qgis-grass plugin is receiving very little, if any, care; I think we (Faunalia)
> did most of the work on it in the last few years; we're happy to do it, but we miss
> the resource to do it on a regular basis (e.g. there is a number of bugs to be
> fixed). Are we the only users, or there are more around? If so, please stand up and
> help us, either patching the code or providing some resources, or even better
> becoming the maintainer of the plugin, otherwise we're afraid the maintenance will
> become more and more difficult.
> All the best.
> [Giuseppe | Giovanni | Paolo] @ Faunalia
> -- 
> Paolo Cavallini - Faunalia
> www.faunalia.eu
> See details at: www.faunalia.eu/pc
> 
> [0] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1158
> [1] http://hub.qgis.org/issues/3646
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