[GRASS-user] why is v.build.all (and many others) a windows batch file and not an executable?

[Bartolomei.Chris]

I attached a couple txt files (I hope they don't get striped off...) listing the GRASS modules in the "bin" directory - one lists all of the ".exe" modules and one lists all of the ".bat" modules. Why are there both formats? How are we supposed to run (shell) scripts calling the modules? It just doesn't make sense having the two different formats in the same folder... all of the modules should be executables or all of the modules should be Windows Batch files. Having the mix makes it very hard to program.
Thanks
Chris

Chris Bartolomei P.E.
Engineer/Scientist
ENSCO, Inc.
bartolomei.chris at ensco.com
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From: grass-user [grass-user-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Helmut Kudrnovsky [hellik at web.de]
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2016 2:00 AM
To: grass-user at lists.osgeo.org
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] why is v.build.all (and many others) a windows batch file and not an executable?

>They modules should all be compiled executables so legacy shell >scripts
users have can run them ...

AFAIK there were always a distinction in GRASS between compiled code and
scripts since the beginning.

the motivation of the switch to python scripts from grass6 to grass7 was
cross platform compatiliby.



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best regards
Helmut
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