[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #1950: wingrass: replace rxvt with conhost.exe

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#1950: wingrass: replace rxvt with conhost.exe
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 Reporter:  hamish     |       Owner:  grass-dev@…              
     Type:  task       |      Status:  new                      
 Priority:  major      |   Milestone:  6.4.4                    
Component:  Packaging  |     Version:  svn-develbranch6         
 Keywords:  wingrass   |    Platform:  MSWindows 7              
      Cpu:  All        |  
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Comment(by hamish):

 Replying to [comment:3 mmetz]:
 > Can you test if GRASS 7 with MSYS console works for you?

 I haven't tested it extensively, but yes, the msys bash command prompt for
 grass7 wingrass works on XP.

 > Because there the MSYS console does not use rxvt and does not
 > care about csrss.exe or conhost.exe, it simply starts sh as a
 > shell in msys.bat.

 fwiw, looking in the taskman, sh.exe seems to be running in csrss.exe
 there.


 the existing trouble with grass6 cmd.exe Command Line mode is that shell
 scripts run within shell scripts can't find them. (e.g. v.in.lines(.sh)
 calling v.in.mapgen(.sh) seen in another bug report)
 It's not something which is done in trunk so untested with shell scripts.
 This is the class of new subtle bug I'm worried about introducing into 6.x
 if we make a last minute change away from rxvt for 6.4.3 since there's
 little time for testing.
 In the days before release, tested>>theoretically better.


 thanks,
 Hamish

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