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

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>> 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?
>
> I don't think the whitespace in GISDBASE is a big problem any
> more for us, hopefully with 6.4.3 we'll get rid of the last
> of the quoting problems

I still think that *asking* for problems is not a good strategy.

...
> as to your second point of "is different from most GRASS
> tutorials", I agree, and it keeps the confusing "database"
> double definition out of it.

ok, so let's do it before RC3 is done.

> for another thread:

.. maybe for another thread? :)

Markus