[GRASS-user] help building GRASS 7 svn on MacOSX Lion

[Michael Barton]

IMHO, it is probably OK to go with 64bit and drop TclTk for GRASS 7. wxNVIZ is very close to the functionality of TclTk NVIZ and surpasses it in a number of areas. 

For GRASS 6.4, TclTk is still needed.

Michael
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On Sep 24, 2011, at 2:24 PM, grass-user-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:

> Well, TclTk is only needed for the old NVIZ.  The old TclTk GUI is gone.  TclTk 64bit is another one of those that is a problem - it can be built 64bit, but it needs a newer TclTk that GRASS has problems with.
> 
> So, a decision here:
> 
> - 64bit-only GRASS: Skip the old NVIZ and make do with the still-in-progress wx nviz, or "3D view" (there was supposedly a lot of work done on this for GSOC?)
> 
> - 32+64bit GRASS: so you can have 32bit NVIZ and 64bit rest of GRASS.