[GRASS-user] GRASS GIS 7.03 for Mac OS X, problem with wxPython (missing)

[Rainer M Krug]

Ken Mankoff <mankoff at gmail.com> writes:

> On 2016-03-15 at 08:45, Adam Dershowitz <adershowitz at exponent.com> wrote:
>> If people are avoiding a useful system upgrade because of a single
>> application, that indicates that the application is important.
>
> Agreed.
>
>> I've never used docker, but was just checking up on, and it doesn¹t
>> appear to be free, nor does it appear to work on Macs.
>
> I don't think Docker is the solution. It does work on OS X, but not
> "natively". And it is non-trivial for a newbie and a much higher
> barrier of entry than a classic VM (VirtualBox).

Slightly more complex - but a VM runs slower, needs more resources (if I
am not mistaken) and much more hdd space.

>
>> I believe the one of the reasons for the shift to wxpython, years ago,
>> was to keep cross platform support.
>
> Wouldn't a CLI-only port for OS X be an option, or a starting place, if the GUI is the problem?

Absolutely - that would be already a very good start.

>
>   -k.

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Rainer M. Krug
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