[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1891: wingrass: background dosbox from regular wxgui startup

[GRASS GIS]

#1891: wingrass: background dosbox from regular wxgui startup
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 Reporter:  hamish    |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  defect    |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major     |   Milestone:  6.4.3                    
Component:  Default   |     Version:  svn-releasebranch64      
 Keywords:  wingrass  |    Platform:  MSWindows 7              
      Cpu:  x86-64    |  
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Comment(by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:28 mmetz]:
 > FWIW, MSYS uses (since 2009.03.17) by default sh, not rxvt. Only the
 ancient
 > msys.bat in GRASS 6 uses rxvt by default. The MSYS console in GRASS 7
 uses sh.

 ... rxvt is the xterm-alike window-frame, sh is the Bourne shell
 (#!/bin/sh, in the case of MSys "symlinked" to bash.exe), right? are we
 comparing apples and oranges? or is there another sh.exe from Microsoft or
 MSys acting as a graphical xterm-alike window and not a Bourne shell
 interpreter?


 either way, let's not start anything new and delay 6.4.3 for a
 transition/debugging, it can go in for the next one. Besides the known
 pdcurses issue (I've used the msys+rxvt a bunch and it's hasn't bothered
 me) the rxvt-MSys on 6.4.3svn is the least problematic of the startup
 methods on wingrass right now. It ain't (very) broke, let's not fix it
 while cmd.exe and friends are actively being transitioned from mostly-
 broken to hopefully-working.

 for the 6.4.3 release right now we offer these options:
  - Command Line (grass in C:\>, just fixed in devbr6; will backport
 v.soon)
  - GUI (wxGUI without a separate command window; sibling to the desktop
 icon)
  - GUI with MSYS (wxGUI with bash running in a rxvt window)
  - Old TclTk GUI (no rxvt window, just the GUI windows(?))
  - MSYS UNIX Console (bash in rxvt, not in a GRASS environment)

 the desktop icon is not exactly the same as the "GUI" from the menu, but
 AFAIK the only difference is the minimizing of the empty dosbox window.
 Whatever the desktop icon is effectively defines the "default"
 presentation.

 grass643.bat in the 'C:\Program Files\GRASS GIS' dir calls etc/env.bat
 then etc/Init.bat for the startup, with the exception of "GUI+MSys" which
 calls "./msys/msys.exe grass643.sh -wx".



 I'm sort of confused as to the goal we are working towards-

  - which of the options do we want the "default" presentation to be?
  - otherwise are we happy with: cmd.exe only, GUI only, and GUI+bash?
  - if the answer to the first question is GUI+bash, will bash be in rxvt
 for 6.4.3 and a dosbox for 6.4.4? or some other plan?
  - if for 6.4.3 the "default" desktop icon target is GUI-only, do we write
 a simple .pyw wrapper to call 'grass643svn.bat -wxpython' launcher to
 avoid the empty dosbox? (the subject of this ticket)
  - do we ease the non-default startup options into a sub-menu to reduce
 the clutter? or just let the user adjust the desktop icon to whichever
 version they like?


 thanks,
 Hamish

 ps- is the occasional unwanted "C:" -> "/c/" conversions in random strings
 by msys still a problem in trunk?

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