[winGRASS] cygwin and winGRASS status update

[John Huddleston]

Mike, (Cc to WinGRASS)

The opengl is distributed with Cygwin, see any ftp site, the latest is:
May 11 10:25   opengl-1.1.0-5-src.tar.gz

GDAL Geospatial Data Abstraction Library  ...
is the going to be an upgrade for the Grass5?  Frank Warmerdam
http://gdal.velocet.ca/ put it together and now it is an org
http://www.remotesensing.org/gdal

Yes, distance, jet lag, loss of a week on your pet projects is
an issue for many of us.  I am in Colorado and am finishing 
up a PhD in Civil Engineering at Colorado State University
while working full time for USDA.  However, think of the 
major contribution you would make to the world towards a
free GIS system.  We would have to have sponsors to pay
our travel.   That would be a small cost for the benefit derived.

The one thing that has finally set into my thick skull is that
you cannot turn back time.   If you do not jump on opportunity
to accomplish something great, the moment is lost.

John Huddleston


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Thomas" <mthomas at gil.com.au>
To: "WinGRASS" <wingrass at geog.uni-hannover.de>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:53 AM
Subject: [winGRASS] cygwin and winGRASS status update


> Hi there.
> 
> > I suggest we travel to where most of the development
> > occurs.  This will minimize our travel costs.  Eric, Mike,
> > Andreas, are you all close to Markus?
> 
> I'm in Australia, so it's expensive to get there.  Much as I would like to
> go I'll have to say no at this stage - if I change my mind I'll turn up at
> the time!
> 
> > Depending upon time, we can discuss the 98 port.  I'll burn
> > a CD of my development environment and we can compare notes.
> 
> A stable set of tools would sure be good to have.
> 
> 
> > RPC is another.  I'll look into this.
> >
> > Let's identify all the libraries that do not come from
> > http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin/ or xfree and list them.
> >
> > Others?
> 
> GDAL, OpenGL
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Mike Thomas.
>