Paul Kelly wrote: > > a friend told me that with the latest QGIS release candidate, > > there is a winGRASS problem: > > > > $ v.rast.stats vector=CEA_riserve raster=CEA_slope colprefix=delete > > c:/Programmi/Quantum: c:/Programmi/Quantum: No such file or directory > > v.rast.stats is a shell script, so you are likely to have loads of > problems if not finding it nearly impossible to get it working properly on > Windows. I notice there are loads of places in it that paths aren't > quoted so that is probably the first problem (although to be fair that is > also a problem for Unix and isn't a problem for Windows if you don't > install software in paths with spaces in them!).
That's certainly a fundamental problem; $TMP and $SQLTMP appear to be the most likely candidates. Regardless of Windows-specific issues, failure to quote variables which contain pathnames is a bug and needs to be fixed. AFAICT, $SQLTMP is unnecessary. You can just as easily use a subshell with its output piped directly to db.execute; no need for a temporary file. > Then there is the fact that Msys doesn't understand Windows-style paths, That's incorrect; MSys itself understands Windows paths, with either a forward or backward slash. However, there may be individual scripts which can't handle this. > In general it's a pleasant surprise if some shell scripts to happen to > work OK on Windows, and IMHO shouldn't really be considered a bug if they > don't. I feel the fact that QGIS includes a copy of Msys with GRASS gives > the "illusion" of GRASS being more compatible with Windows than it really > is - the truly native WinGRASS we're working on is a more accurate > expression of GRASS's compatiblity with Windows as I see it. Ultimately, if we're serious about GRASS on Windows, we need to make it a priority to migrate away from Bourne shell to something more portable (with Python being the obvious choice). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
