[GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2014-07-02 13:22 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert <mlennert at club.worldonline.be>:
> [Starting a new thread as this is an important point on its own. Original
> mail is [1].]
>
> On 02/07/14 01:10, Glynn Clements wrote:> But in the longer term, should we
> be claiming to support a platform
>> for which we appear to have no active developers?
>
> I think that the question merits discussion. In my teaching experience it
> has been very helpful to have a MS Windows version to allow students with MS
> Windows machines to install the software on these machines. I also have
> colleagues who, for different reasons, are quite resistant to installing
> another OS on their machines, but would like to use GRASS. So, generally, I
> think that there should be a MS Windows port of GRASS.

we simply _must_ support as much as possible GRASS on Windows. It's
crucial for us, without users there is no need for developing
software.

Martin

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