[GRASSLIST:5157] Re: Early Report on Grass 5.4 Cygwin Binary

[Paul Kelly]

I meant to comment on this too. It is really great to have a working 
up-to-date NVIZ etc. I found however that it really required a 
bleeding-edge Cygwin installation to have it working, e.g. wouldn't work 
without libtiff5. Also r.in.gdal was looking for Jasper etc. If you have a 
lot of bandwidth and can first update your Cygwin to all the latest 
packages and include everything it should be no problem.

Well done to whoever compiled it!

Paul


On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Patton, Eric wrote:

> In response to Markus' request, I've tested out the new Grass 5.4 Cygwin
> binary at http://grass.itc.it/grass54/binary/mswindows_cygwin/
> <http://grass.itc.it/grass54/binary/mswindows_cygwin/> , with my comments
> below.
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> Although I've only given it a quick once-through, everything appears to be
> in working order. I was quite pleased with it actually. The tcltkgrass GUI
> came up no problem, as did all display monitors. Displaying and zoom/panning
> is no problem with any raster or vector dataset. PNG driver is working
> nicely too.
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> NVIZ is actually working fine, I ran into no problems loading and
> manipulating a DEM.
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> All g.*  programs are working great, I tried out g.region, g.list,
> g.mapsets, g.access.
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> Logging out was executed cleanly, with no ugly error messages. Nice!
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> I suspect any big problems would have shown themselves in some of the
> programs I used. However, I didn't try out any hardcore raster/vector
> editing or processing programs.
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> I will continue working with this release during the week and report on any
> glitches that arise.
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> I'm quite happy with what I've seen so far. This binary install was by far
> the most painless to install and get up and running. Thanks to Richard and
> Huidae and others for putting the time in to make this release available.
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> ~ Eric.
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> Eric Patton
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