[Qgis-developer] about grass plugin (windows)

[Radim Blazek]

On 11/28/06, godofredo contreras <frdcn at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Radim:
>
> What do you think about using cmd or command instead of msys shell for
> windows version of plugin? it could eliminate the necessity of distribute
> msys shell with qgis.

IMO native cmd/command is absolutely useless. We have to use MSYS
shell, I dont see other possibility.

Radim

> Freddy
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>  ________________________________
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> From:  "Radim Blazek" <radim.blazek at gmail.com>
> To:  "godofredo contreras" <frdcn at hotmail.com>
> CC:  qgis-developer at lists.qgis.org
> Subject:  Re: [Qgis-developer] about grass plugin (windows)
> Date:  Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:09:18 +0100
>
> >On 11/27/06, godofredo contreras <frdcn at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>Hi:
> >>
> >>I have been working in a debugging environment for qgis based on :
> >>msys and
> >>eclipse cdt with some success. I was analizing grass plugin source
> >>and the
> >>notes that Benjamin posted in http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/35. I
> >>saw in some
> >>notes in plugin code that there were some problems opening a cmd or
> >>command
> >>shell. I am very new to grass and I would know if grass shell is
> >>simply an
> >>operating system shell with grass executables in path, if this is
> >>the case
> >>we could solve the problem calling a grass.bat in qgis folder that
> >>sets all
> >>environment variables and open a cmd window, if not, could somebody
> >>tell me
> >>what is needed from a grass shell ?
> >
> >GRASS shell is using MSYS terminal, i.e. qgis/msys/msys.bat
> >but some variables must be set previously by the plugin (GISBASE,
> >GISRC).
> >
> >>Also I got a weird problem, I copy shared folder from a previous
> >>installation of qgis and every time a try to execute a grass
> >>command, the
> >>plugin looks for executables in the old path. Are there any
> >>configuration to
> >>set the grass executables path?
> >
> >The plugin is looking for modules in GISBASE directory. Normaly
> >you dont need to specify the directory especially on windows where
> >it attempts to use qgis/grass directory. If a directory with GRASS
> >is not found in the expected path you are asked to select a
> >directory.
> >In that case the path is stored in QGIS settings and it is used
> >in future if the directory is valid. If that directory was removed
> >you should be asked to select another one.
> >The only way to change GISBASE if previously dir still exists
> >is to edit QGIS settings manualy.
> >
> >Radim
> >
> >>thanks in advance.
> >>
> >>Freddy
> >>
> >>
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