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

[Bartolomei.Chris]

I want to thank everyone for their feedback and information on this issue, you folks are awesome!
While I think that there could have been a way to move forward with python and yet not break the legacy shell scripts users have when migrating, I understand the changes now.
I do have a work-around that seems to be ok with msys - basically just spelling out the .bat file for those commands that are not executables... this way I only have to rewrite the afflicted module commands. Since I have to update the commands for syntax anyway, then it's not too bad.  Better than having to translate into a different language (I am from California afterall ... we only speak "dude" here...lol ...)
Thanks again!
:)
Chris

Chris Bartolomei P.E.
Engineer/Scientist
ENSCO, Inc.
bartolomei.chris at ensco.com
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From: neteler.osgeo at gmail.com [neteler.osgeo at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Markus Neteler [neteler at osgeo.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 3:16 AM
To: Moritz Lennert
Cc: Bartolomei.Chris; Martin Landa; grass-user at lists.osgeo.org; Helmut Kudrnovsky
Subject: Re: [GRASS-user] why is v.build.all (and many others) a windows batch file and not an executable?

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:01 PM, Moritz Lennert
<mlennert at club.worldonline.be> wrote:
> On 04/05/16 00:50, Bartolomei.Chris wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin
>> The problem I am having is that my bourne shell scripts (#!/bin/sh) cannot
>> execute the bat files ...
...
> As Helmut has tried to clarify, the issue is with msys, not with GRASS.
>
> More fundamentally, the decision was made to make GRASS on Windows a Windows
> experience, not a *nix emulation experience. This is one of the reasons why
> scripts were translated to Python. Users are, therefore, strongly encouraged
> to use Python as scripting language and not bash. This allows to run your
> scripts in the standard cmd console and thus not be hit by the
> incompatibilities between windows logic and *nix logic.

Just FYI: there is also a Wiki page:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__grasswiki.osgeo.org_wiki_Converting-5FBash-5Fscripts-5Fto-5FPython&d=CwIBaQ&c=DsZY2bea7iNIzyp-7sZ0t0F2UfNQZUfZhEPCv_2wBI0&r=O31ltou6ygJL2Y01kQyNJJD2kiILIsbyz2V0Hn4lFUY&m=1joyr5qqmGcPxI_gvQM5j6XPFqwA8NL1fWvpO4gnUV8&s=t5cXo-k0mqdVbY3xpPAB7ojsV4z-0JGrk2-9nTFN6k0&e=

(@all: please add more tricks there)

Markus

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