[GRASSLIST:874] Re: [GRASS5] New GRASS intro

[David Finlayson]

Glad to hear that.

I think one of the great benefits of the new canvas is that it can be
ported to other platforms, no?

I am looking forward to the day when grass runs well in Windows. A lot
of our proprietary equipment runs only in windows. It would be nice to
feed real-time data from these instruments directly into grass for
post-processing on board the ship.

I guess I need to see how the new GUI is composting the images to see
the best way to script it.

David

On 4/25/06, Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 02:29:00PM -0700, David Finlayson wrote:
> > On 4/25/06, Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Everyone wants the command line interface to be maintained. However, there
> > > are features that can be implemented in an integrated GUI in ways that are
> > > not possible with a CLI.
> >
> > I am always torn on this issue. On the one hand, if GRASS had a
> > friendly user interface, maybe it wouldn't be in the GIS ghetto it is
> > now (in USA anyway). On the other hand, the reason I use GRASS is
> > because it integrates with my Unix toolbox (sed, grep, cut, etc).
> >
> > If there comes a day when a Bash script isn't a first-class interface
> > to GRASS. Well, that's the day I stop using GRASS.
>
> Me, too :-)
>
> But there is not interest in dropping the command line interface.
> In fact, it will remain and be maintained (at least by me and many
> other developers).
>
> There will be *also* high developed GUI(s).
>
> So, no worries,
>
>  Markus
>
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David Finlayson