[GRASSLIST:10464] Re: gis.m run failure

[Tom Russo]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:10:17AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <michael.barton at asu.edu> flavor, containing:
> I've been working with 8.4.x for quite awhile with no problems on the Mac
> platform.
> 
> Is there any reason now to stay with 8.3? (nviz? Other?)

The one thing I ever heard of as a problem was NVIZ, and it was the first
thing I tried once switching to 8.4 --- as far as I can tell on cursory
examination, it does work on my system.  For me, staying with 8.3 was mostly 
superstition --- some time ago there were strong warnings not to try to
use tcl/tk 8.4, and I never tried.  There are still warnings in the 
REQUIREMENTS.html file that some versions of Linux still need 8.3.

I did see a few odd behaviors in gis.m (at one point I "cut" the last layer
out of the list and the thing went into some sort of infinite loop) but I 
didn't play around enough to see if they were reproducible.  I just fiddled
around a little to see what was there, but didn't really try to do anything
for real.

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