[Qgis-psc] GRASS work progress

[Radim Blazek]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 10:16 PM, Tim Sutton <tim at qgis.org> wrote:
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> Hi Radim
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> I wanted to make a small request / suggestion too about the GRASS implementation in QGIS. Currently when you start QGIS compiled with GRASS (in my case 6.4 on fedora), you get a pop up at the start of QGIS asking you if you want to set GISBASE. No matter what I set there I can’t get it to recognise my GRASS. That is probably just me being dumb, but my problem is more about the popup itself - it blocks QGIS from starting which ruins e.g. tests which need to run headless and I think it isn’t a great user experience as there is no help to tell you how to locate GISBASE. What about using a QgsMessageBar or some other non-blocking technique for alerting the user to the fact that their GISBASE is not found, and providing some help on what the appropriate setting should be?

OK, I have disabled the warning dialog and I'll add GISBASE select to
options. A soft message is set from the plugin. Is there a mechanism
how to set soft message from provider?

Regarding the GISBASE itself, the search order is:
1) GISBASE environment variable
2) previously selected in the dialog (which is now disabled)
3) the location of GRASS used for compilation (cmake GRASS_BASE or GRASS_BASE7)
4) opens select dialog (now disabled)

So it seems that in your case QGIS was compiled with a version of
GRASS which is no more available. Can you find in debug output where
it looks for GRASS, something like:
src/providers/grass/qgsgrass.cpp: 411: (init) [0ms] GRASS gisBase from
configure is: /home/radim/apps-grass-7-svn/grass-7.1.svn
src/providers/grass/qgsgrass.cpp: 563: (isValidGrassBaseDir) [0ms]
isValidGrassBaseDir()
src/providers/grass/qgsgrass.cpp: 471: (init) [0ms] Valid GRASS
gisBase is: /home/radim/apps-grass-7-svn/grass-7.1.svn

Radim

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> Regards
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> Tim
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> On 13 Sep 2015, at 09:06, Radim Blazek <radim.blazek at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde <richard at duif.net> wrote:
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> On 12-09-15 14:52, Radim Blazek wrote:
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> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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> All seems to go very well:
> http://www.gissula.eu/qgis-grass-plugin-crowdfunding/progress.html
> Only editing is still to be completed, but almost all the rest is done.
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> I want to finish the upgrade for the 2.12 as I promised, i.e. the 26th
> of September
> according to https://www.qgis.org/en/site/getinvolved/development/index.html.
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> Good work and nice way of working, Radim.
> Both the crowdfunding and your way of describing the progress.
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> Thanks Richard.
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> Maybe anybody volunteering to write some small news article about this
> work (and Radim) on the qgis blog?
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> Better to wait with more publicity until the work is completed, I mean
> all the intended features are there (2.12 feature freeze).
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> Radim
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