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

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

Bartolomei.Chris-2 wrote
> 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@

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> Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] why is v.build.all (and many others) a windows
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> 
>>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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> bin_bat_files.txt (2K)
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5264356/0/bin_bat_files.txt>
> bin_exe_files.txt (7K)
> <http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/attachment/5264356/1/bin_exe_files.txt>

Please have a look at 

https://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2016-May/080044.html

windows batch files are executables in sense of MS windows operating
systems. 

thus there are all executables in \bin. 

it's a limitation of msys that Windows batch files aren't recognized as
executables. 



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