[GRASSLIST:7530] Re: First reactions

[Martin Wegmann]

On Wednesday 13 July 2005 09:42, Markus Neteler wrote:
[...]
> > > 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.
>
> Work is ongoing at University of Trento to port GRASS to MS-Windows
> as generic EXE/DLLs using MingW compiler. Most of the libraries are
> done, module testing is ongoing. Once working, Cygwin will be no longer
> needed (although maybe helpful for scripting etc).

that would be indeed a very huge step forward for Windows users and probably 
will give GRASS a huge boost. Looking forward to it even though I do not use 
Windows but then I can advertise GRASS better to the majority of my 
colleagues. 

cheers, Maritn