[GRASS-dev] [GRASS-user] GRASS, ArcGIS, and Python incompatibilties

[William Kyngesburye]

I guess technically it could use the system wxpython.  But I can think of a few reasons to still bundle wxpython:

- bug fixes in later versions than the system version that greatly affect use in GRASS (I don't remember, but I think there were some?)

- consistency of behavior across system versions from having the same wxpython

- 64bit support in wxpython 2.9 when GRASS is happy with 2.9 (or whatever the release version is, 2.10?)

- simply that wxpython is not included in the system starting with OS X 10.7

On Jun 30, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Michael Barton wrote:

> Does this mean that we no longer *have* to bundle wxPython with the Mac binaries? That they will work with whatever wxPython is installed (assuming it is within the range of supported versions, of course) regardless of what it was compiled with?
> 
> Michael
> 
> On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Michael Barton wrote:
>> 
>>> Don't you need to have the wxPython that GRASS was compiled with? 
>>> And doesn't this wxPython have to match the Python version?
>> 
>> GRASS isn't "compiled" with any version of Python, i.e. it doesn't
>> have any binaries which link against the Python DLL/DSO.
>> 
>> At one time there were binary modules for the wx GUI's nviz and vdigit
>> components, and the SWIG wrappers, but those have all since been
>> eliminated.
>> 

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