[GRASS-user] winGRASS tester needed ... to fix upcoming releases :-) .... nobody out there willing to test?

[Helmut Kudrnovsky]

mail below was sent on Wed Apr 14 2021 => no reaction, no one a minute to test?

if no one of the community has a minute to test winGRASS, then I guess it's time to propose to the PSC dropping winGRASS at all....

kind regards
Helmut

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dear GRASS GIS community,

testing of winGRASS is a important piece of puzzle to guarantee a stable and useable software on the MS windows platform in the future.

For this, we would need the help of the community now. :-)

background is an _error in g.extension while installing i.fusion.hpf in windows_

some more information

https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/issues/1477
https://github.com/OSGeo/grass/pull/1496

it's an encoding issue while opening files via python.

a possible solution may be set PYTHONUTF8=1 as environment variable.

and a way how you could help, just add

set PYTHONUTF8=1

in C:\OSGeo4W64\apps\grass\grass79\etc\env.bat just before GRASS_PYTHON is set. (or in the same file in the standalone winGRASS installation).

it would look like:

[...]
set PYTHONUTF8=1
set GRASS_PYTHON=%OSGEO4W_ROOT%\bin\python3.exe
[...]

and then happy GRASS GIS working :-) and report back if there are any issues in your daily winGRASS work.

kind regards
Helmut