[GRASS-windows] Re: [GRASS-user] Problem Script: "from collections import deque"

[Luigi Ponti]

On 22/02/2011 01:45, Glynn Clements wrote:
> Luigi Ponti wrote:
>
>   
>>> Unfortunately, there isn't a simple option for running GRASS on
>>> Windows at the moment. The official Windows packages for GRASS are
>>> quite badly broken, and doing it yourself is a lot of work.
>>>       
>> I did notice that.
>>
>> [...]
>> Probably the windows user base -- I mean, myself -- has very low 
>> programming skills, and hence is unable to help move things forward.
>>     
>
> This has always been the problem for GRASS. The developers don't
> generally develop for Windows, while those using GRASS on Windows
> generally aren't developers.
>
> However, this particular issue isn't a programming issue, but a
> packaging issue. If you want to use Python for scripting GRASS on
> Windows, the best solution is to delete the bundled version of Python
> 2.5 from the GRASS installation, install Python and the required
> add-ons (wxPython, NumPy, PyWin32) from their official installers,
> then edit the GRASS start-up script to remove any references to the
> bundled version.
>
>   

Thanks.

I added a note here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/GRASS_and_Python#MS-Windows

Please, advice if it isn't appropriate.

Luigi


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