[GRASSweb-list]markus: web/platforms wingrass.html,1.2,1.3

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Thu Mar 9 05:52:39 EST 2006 

Author: markus

Update of /grassrepository/web/platforms
In directory doto:/tmp/cvs-serv15848

Modified Files:
	wingrass.html 
Log Message:
updated

Index: wingrass.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /grassrepository/web/platforms/wingrass.html,v
retrieving revision 1.2
retrieving revision 1.3
diff -u -d -r1.2 -r1.3
--- wingrass.html	1 Mar 2005 20:44:37 -0000	1.2
+++ wingrass.html	9 Mar 2006 10:52:37 -0000	1.3
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <head>
    <DEFANGED_meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
    <DEFANGED_meta name="Author" content="Andreas C. Lange">
-   <DEFANGED_meta name="KeyWords" content="GRASS, GIS, Windows, MS-Windows, Porting, cygwin, Microsoft">
+   <DEFANGED_meta name="KeyWords" content="GRASS, GIS, MS-Windows, MS-Windows, Porting, cygwin, Microsoft">
    <DEFANGED_link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="sitestyle.css">
    <title>GRASS GIS port to MS-Windows Information</title>
 </head>
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 <center>
 <h1>
 
-<hr SIZE=3 NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">GRASS port to Microsoft Windows</h1></center>
+<hr SIZE=3 NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">GRASS port to Microsoft MS-Windows</h1></center>
 
 <center><a href="../images/winGRASS_big.png"><DEFANGED_IMG SRC="../images/winGRASS.png" ></a></center>
 <p>
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@
 
 <H1>winGRASS GIS</H1>
 
-GRASS GIS has been ported to MS Windows (NT, 2000 Professional, XP)
+GRASS GIS has been successfully ported to MS MS-Windows (NT, 2000 Professional, XP) with
+Cygwin extension. Currently (2006), also a winGRASS native port is in
+preparation.
 
 <H2>winGRASS GIS mailing list</H2>
 
@@ -35,35 +37,23 @@
 
 
 <!-- hidden links to make htdig and Google search the list archives (new and old): -->
-<a href=http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/wingrass/><font color=white>x</a></font><br>
+<a href=http://grass.itc.it/pipermail/wingrass/><font color=white>x</a></font>
 
+<H2>Option 1: winGRASS GIS with Cygwin</H2>
 
-GRASS GIS has been ported 
-to MS Windows (NT, 2000 Professional, XP) using the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/">cygwin
-tools</a>. The source code is identical to the UNIX version as the GRASS
+GRASS GIS has been ported to MS MS-Windows (NT, 2000 Professional, XP) using 
+the <a href="http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/">cygwin tools</a>.
+The source code is identical to the UNIX version as the GRASS
 source code is rather platform independent. If you want to compile yourself,
 we recommend to get the latest GRASS sources from our <a href="../devel/cvs.php">CVS-Server</a>.
-<p>You are encouraged to use
-this experimental version and assist to identify and help fixing the few
-bugs still in this version. Following problems are to be addressed
-in a future release:
-<ul>
-<li>
-stabilize the native windows graphical
-output window to display maps;</li>
-
-<li>
-have a native windows menu
-user interface </li>
-<li>
-get NVIZ working
-(problem is the limited path support of TclTk for Cygwin).</li>
-</ul>
+Find instructions <a href="http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html#toc8">here</a>.
+For questions, please contact above mailing list.
+<P>
 
 The <b>graphical output screen</b>
 (based on XDRIVER) has been the major problem to port GRASS. The system
 is now working with the XFree86 Server or the StarNet X-Win Server
-as well as the generic Windows driver. For the <b>menu system</b> (only
+as well as the generic MS-Windows driver. For the <b>menu system</b> (only
 supported for winGRASS with Xdriver)
 currently the tcl/tk based tcltkgrass program is used. The native <b>menu
 system</b> (probably based on tcl/tk or python) will take more time.
@@ -76,66 +66,44 @@
 bug reporting system and read the manuals and old posts to the mailing
 lists. See <a href="../bugtracking/bugreport.html">here</a> for report a bug.
 
-<p>
-<b>NOTE 1: GRASS does not cope (yet) with spaces in directory names. Take this
-into account when installing GRASS on MS-Windows.</b><br>
-<b>NOTE 2: When selecting the root install directory, make sure that
-the "Default Text File Type" is set to Unix.</b><br>
-<b>NOTE 3: You must install/compile GRASS on an NTFS partition 
-(FAT will not work!)</b>
+<H2>Option 2: Native winGRASS GIS</H2>
 
-<p>
-<b>Download pre-compiled winGRASS
-binaries:</b>
-<ul>
-<li>
-Download <a href="../grass54/binary/mswindows_cygwin/">precompiled
-	package of the GRASS 5.4 port to Windows</a> We provide
-two versions:
-<ul>
-<li>
-winGRASS with Xserver requirement:
-wingrass_xserver/</li>
+A new, parallel project works on the native port of GRASS to MS-Windows.
+All changes are integrated into the CVS version of GRASS 6.1.
+Compile instructions are available <a href="http://mpa.itc.it/radim/wingrass/INSTALL">here</a>.
 
-<li>
-winGRASS without Xserver requirement:
-wingrass_generic/
-(probably more limited in functionality)</li>
+<H2>Notes</H2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>NOTE 1: GRASS does not cope (yet) with spaces in directory names. Take this
+into account when installing GRASS on MS-Windows.</li>
+<li>NOTE 2: When selecting the root install directory, make sure that
+the "Default Text File Type" is set to Unix.</li>
+<li>NOTE 3: You must install/compile GRASS on an NTFS partition 
+(FAT will not work!)</lli>
 </ul>
 
-<br>
-<b>NOTE:</b> Supported are Windows NT (SP 3 or above), Windows 2000 Professional
-and XP.
-<li>
-<a href="../grass50/binary/windows_cygnus/cygwin_grass50bininstall.html">Instructions
-	to install the precompiled winGRASS package.</a> (old)</li>
-<li>Go <a href="http://geni.ath.cx/grass.html">here</a> for experimental (but newer) winGRASS binary versions (GRASS 6).
+<H2>Download binaries</H2>
 
+<b>Download pre-compiled winGRASS binaries:</b>
+<ul>
+<li> Cygwin based: Download <a href="../grass60/binary/mswindows/">precompiled
+	package of the GRASS 6 port to MS-Windows/Cygwin</a>
+<li> Native port with QGIS integration: <a href="http://mpa.itc.it/radim/wingrass/">native winGRASS</a>
+  
 </ul>
 
 
 <p><b>Download source code
-(to compile GRASS from scratch on Windows):</b>
+(to compile GRASS from scratch on MS-Windows):</b>
 <ul>
 <li>
 Get the latest <a href="../download/index.php">GRASS sources.</a></li>
-
-<li>
-<a href="../grass50/binary/windows_cygnus/cygwin_grass50compile.html">Instructions
-on how to compile</a> GRASS 5.0 with the cygnus tools.</li>
-</ul>
-
-
-<hr SIZE=3 NOSHADE WIDTH="100%">
-<h3>FAQ (related to Cygwin)</h3>
-<ul>
-<li><a href=http://cygwin.com/faq/faq_toc.html>Cygwin FAQ</a>
-<li><a href=http://xfree86.cygwin.com/docs/faq/cygwin-xfree-faq.html>Xfree/Cygwin FAQ</a>
 </ul>
 
 <!-- FOOTER -->
 <hr>
-<DIV ALIGN=right>&copy; 2000-2005 GRASS Development Team<br>
+<DIV ALIGN=right>&copy; 2000-2006 GRASS Development Team<br>
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