[GRASS-windows] C:\Program Files\ as default installation path of winGRASS

[Markus Neteler]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Luigi Ponti <lponti at infinito.it> wrote:
> Dear list,
>
> Knowing that Msys doesn't (and never will) like spaces in paths, I wonder if
> there is any point in installing winGRASS to C:\Program Files\ (default in
> the current standalone installer) as this prevents all sh.exe based commands
> to work properly (e.g. d.shadedmap, r.shaded.relief, etc.) -- GRASS
> complains in the following way:
>
> /c/Program: Files\GRASS-64-SVN\msys\bin\sh.exe: No such file
> or directory

I think that this is related to
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/714
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2010-January/048199.html

Markus