[GRASS-dev] winGRASS: why GIS_DATABASE "$DOCUMENTS\GIS DataBase" with white space in path?

Markus Neteler neteler at osgeo.org
Sat Apr 13 07:08:26 PDT 2013


Hi,

while playing with winGRASS on Windows 8, I realized that the default
grassdata path is a bit unfortunate:

grep 'GIS Data' */* 2>&1 | grep -v directory
mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl:	StrCpy $GIS_DATABASE
"$DOCUMENTS\GIS DataBase"

- uses white space (which we commonly dislike)
- is different from most GRASS tutorials

Why not

	StrCpy $GIS_DATABASE "$DOCUMENTS\grassdata"

which would solve above problems?

Markus


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