[GRASS-user] GRASS, ArcGIS, and Python incompatibilties

[Michael Barton]

Does this mean that we no longer *have* to bundle wxPython with the Mac binaries? That they will work with whatever wxPython is installed (assuming it is within the range of supported versions, of course) regardless of what it was compiled with?

Michael

On Jun 30, 2012, at 4:32 PM, Glynn Clements wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> Don't you need to have the wxPython that GRASS was compiled with? 
>> And doesn't this wxPython have to match the Python version?
> 
> GRASS isn't "compiled" with any version of Python, i.e. it doesn't
> have any binaries which link against the Python DLL/DSO.
> 
> At one time there were binary modules for the wx GUI's nviz and vdigit
> components, and the SWIG wrappers, but those have all since been
> eliminated.
> 
> -- 
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>

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