[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 mmetz):

 Replying to [comment:5 glynn]:
 > Replying to [ticket:1950 hamish]:
 > > (I've used it a bunch and not run into any problems, so beyond the
 above I'm not really seeing what all the fuss is about. what exactly about
 it is buggy?)

 The only fuss I see is about keeping rxvt. I don't see what all the fuss
 is about. It has been settled for MSYS four years ago.

 >
 > I've found that copy+paste often caused rxvt to crash. But given that a
 number of 6.x modules either use curses or modify their behaviour
 depending upon whether isatty() returns true for stdin/stdout, the fact
 that rxvt won't work correctly with those modules can also be considered a
 bug.

 In rxvt, copy+paste never worked for me, but since I am sometimes trying
 to fix bugs for wingrass, I changed years ago to system console + sh in my
 local wingrass versions.

 It seems that using rxvt can be regarded as a bug. I updated msys.bat to
 the official stable version (MSYS 2009) in r55996,7 for rebr64, devbr6,
 respectively.

 About changes and testing: this change is not in a release candidate and
 far from being in an official release. A pity.

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