[GRASS-dev] WinGRASS71svn using Windows shell (not bourne shell) thogh MSYS is installed

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
wrote:

>
> Martin Landa wrote:
>
> > > Given the history of the Python issue I shall not complain about a
> missing Unix shell on Windows...
> >
> > switching to msys shell is easy, just change in env.bat file
> >
> > REM set GRASS_SH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\bin\sh.exe
> >
> > to
> >
> > set GRASS_SH=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\apps\msys\bin\sh.exe
> >
> > Probably we could add new item to start menu as it's in G6.
>
> Does the Windows installer still contain MSys? If so, why?
>
> I'm afraid we have an issue with what we want. Do we want to remove msys
in favor of native command line or do we want to have msys available
because it is much better then the MS Windows native command line.

I personally don't care much and I prefer whatever works better. (I'm not
using MS Windows, I have the real unix-like command line on my system.)


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