[GRASSLIST:7518] Re: First reactions

[Martin Wegmann]

On Friday 08 July 2005 10:09, Hamish wrote:
[...]
> No license problem. All the major cross platform GUI toolkits have free
> software implementations: TclTk (what GRASS uses); Motif (GRASS's
> xanim); gtk+ (wasn't someone working on a gtk frontend?); Java (jGRASS);
> wxWidgets (no GRASS port AFAIK); and the latest release of QT (QGIS).
>
> A GPL version of QT for Windows is the new change.

thanks for the information - pretty diverse UI options. 
BTW on kde-apps.org did chrischan 
http://www.kde-apps.org/usermanager/search.php?username=crischan&PHPSESSID=ef2bde3fbf68d98f758201f8a55effc9
post a message that he/she wants to code a qt interface, however I don't know 
the actual status. 

[...]
> But GRASS does require a UNIX environment to run in, so it has to use
> something like Cygwin to provide that, along with all the complexity
> that entails.

I did not know that. GRASS requires a UNIX environment and hence will never be 
available as "*.exe"? Well, then does the Windows user world have to deal 
with Cygwin. 

thanks for clarifying these points, regards, Martin



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