[GRASSLIST:875] Re: [GRASS5] New GRASS intro

[Michael Barton]

David,

The new GIS Manager *should* run with the Windows native version of GRASS
and TclTk. It will be missing the commands that still require x11, of
course. But this is a problem with x11 dependencies, not the TclTk GUI. I'd
love to have you and others test it in this environment.

Michael
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> From: David Finlayson <david.p.finlayson at gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:57:27 -0700
> To: Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>, Multiple recipients of list
> <GRASSLIST at baylor.edu>
> Subject: Re: [GRASS5] New GRASS intro
> 
> 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