[GRASS-windows] winGRASS 6.4.0RC2-2 now with wxpython (OSGeo4W installer)

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 9:11 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
> Markus Neteler wrote:
>
>> > Should configure[.in] be modified such that --without-regex generates
>> > a warning that GRASS will be almost unusable? Or should it just become
>> > a mandatory dependency?
>>
>> In OSGeo4W it is present but probably not yet compiled:
>> http://download.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/release/regex/
>>
>> If regex is common on all operating systems which we "support"
>> (Linux, Mac, Windows, Solaris, ..?) I'd vote for mandatory dependency.
>
> The regex library is available for Windows, but not common.

The OSGeo4W people told me now via IRC that regex is now
a dependency for GRASS.

> It's specified by POSIX, so can be assumed to exist on all Unices,
> including MacOSX.

Sounds good...

Markus