[Qgis-developer] GRASS Plugin Delete vector issue in windows

[Radim Blazek]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 9:34 AM, roy roy <royroge at outlook.com> wrote:
> Using osgeo4w64 I installed several packages, there is no GRASS Plugin:
>
> QGIS 2.15 nightly with grass 7.0.4
>
> QGIS 2.14.2 nightly with grass 7.0.4
>
> tried also to revert back to GRASS 7.0.3 but there is no GRASS Plugin;
>
> so for this reason, sadly, i cannot test your patch Radim, i'll do ASAP.

AFAIK, there was no GRASS 64bit in OSGeo4W, thus no plugin in 64 bit
version. Try 32 bit build.

Radim


> ### P.S.
>
> I notice that this "GRASS Plugin not being present" issue
>
> is quite annoying, so i wonder what is the policy of
>
> osgeo4w package update/upgrade? Should we consider the
>
> network installer a developer tool and use the sandalone installer
>
> for QGIS regular use instead?
>
> QGIS and GRASS along with GRASS Plugin have became powerful
>
> tools and I understand that ***a lot*** of work is done by developers to
>
> develop, maintain, package, document and release the software, **a lot
> of valuable work(!)**;
>
> sadly IMHO this random behaviour does not give justice to all the good
> dev work.
>
> I think a bit of well delivered information should make things better,
> something
>
> like the LTS release policy, now we normal users know that we can rely
> on it to do
>
> normal work, and we can use regular release to get the newest
> functionalities.
>
> Thanks again, Roy.
>
>
>
> Il 18/05/2016 15:03, Radim Blazek ha scritto:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 8:45 AM, roy roy <royroge at outlook.com> wrote:
>>> Ok thanks Nyall,
>>>
>>> so what do you suggest to do about this,
>>> i think it's really quite a issue although it
>>> happens only on windows ...
>> I fixed that today in bbaef371. The code which should close the map
>> was commented, which resulted in keeping the file open and
>> impossibility to delete the vector on Windows. Please test with the
>> next build.
>>
>> There was a comment about possible dead-lock, so please pay attention
>> to possible freeze when a GRASS vector is deleted and fill a new bug
>> in such case. I hope it is OK however.
>>
>> Radim
>>
>>> Il 18/04/2016 12:10, Nyall Dawson ha scritto:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 18 Apr 2016 19:42, "roy roy" <royroge at outlook.com> wrote:
>>>> Can anyone confirm this issue with GRASS Plugin on:
>>>>
>>>> Windows 64/32bit with QGIS 2.14.1 and Master
>>>>
>>>> GRASS 7.0.3 GRASS Plugin
>>>>
>>>> If you load a vector layer from GRASS DB in QGIS Layers Panel,
>>>> then you remove it from the panel, still it is impossible to
>>>> delete the vector from GRASS DB using the Browser Panel delete function.
>>> I can confirm - this happened to me last week on a Windows build.
>>>
>>> Nyall
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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