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

[Yann Chemin]

Yes please,

Have not had problem with teaching yet, but always wondered about the
whitespace and when students will get a problem from that.

+1
 On Apr 13, 2013 4:08 PM, "Markus Neteler" <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:

> 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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