[GRASSLIST:3851] Re: openOSX again

[Ian MacMillan]

Just to chime in, I purchased the OpenOSX cd a couple of years back 
(GRASS 5.0.0).  It worked great for me then, and I was quite pleased 
with the promptness.  However after recommending them to a friend 
earlier this year, I have changed my mind.  My friend has not received 
her cd yet, 2 months later, and yet her credit card was of course 
charged.  Emails go unanswered.  Pretty lame.  The grass packages made 
by Lorenzo Moretti are definitely the way to go, especially since they 
are of 5.3 and 5.7.

-ian



On Jul 8, 2004, at 10:47 PM, Hamish wrote:

> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:01:14 +0200
> Andreas Franz <andreas.franz at restaurierung.ch> wrote:
>
>> I have bought a copy of  Grass as provided by openOSX.com. After a
>> long period of time the CDs (they have sent two and charged two)
>> arrived but after installing there is no application "Grass" on my
>> hardrive. I could see it being installed during installation but
>> disappeared right before installation was finished. None of the
>> provided files could be opened!
>>
>> I contacted openOSX.com by email but never got any support nor even a
>> single reply to all my emails. Has that dubious company vanished from
>> the market or does anyone know how to get openOSX Grass running?
>
> see
> http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/9407.html
> http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/9659.html
> http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/9646.html
> http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/9654.html
> http://grass.institutoecos.org.br/grass-list/arq/9979.html
>
>
> If these problems continue, perhaps we should remove mention of OpenOSX
> from the GRASS website and more heavily promote Lorenzo Moretti's great
> work[*] as the situation as it exists reflects badly on the GRASS
> community. Their link to the GRASS website leads to a non-existant page
> Baylor Univ.
>
> see:  http://grass.ibiblio.org/grass50/binary/mac_os_x/
>
>
> [*] http://wwwamb.bologna.enea.it/forgrass/
>
> Perhaps we should do that regardless of any problems people have with
> any 3rd party vendor.
>
>
>
> IIRC, updating things so people can use the Mac/Aqua version of tcltk
> for the tcltkgrass menu system was only minor changes?
>
> see  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/2681
>
> & in response to the problems listed there:
> 1. The web browser bit is already done for 5.7's gui help system.
> 2. The xwininfo problem is solved in 5.7 by d.info.
> 3. easy to change
> 4. no action needed??
>
> maybe Michael Barton has already fixed some of these issues
> incidentally?
>
>
> NVIZ is another story...
>
>
> fwiw, we purchased the OpenOSX CD in 2002 or so when the book first 
> came
> out and had no problems with them back then.
>
>
>
> Hamish
>