Patton, Eric wrote: > > >Sounds like we don't really need this then. Anyone object to me > > >getting rid of this menu entry? > > > > >Michael > > > > Not me. I never have need for this feature. Hints for augmenting bug > > reports with system info can just be added to the bug reporting > > section of the WIKI if need be. > > >How is the user supposed to get that information? > > >Asking the user to run tclsh manually and get the contents of > >$tcl_platform introduces a risk that they might run the wrong tclsh > >(quite easily done on Windows and MacOSX systems, where you may have > >both "native" and "Unix" versions of Tcl/Tk installed). > > >-- > >Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Couldn't that information be supplied through standard Unix commands > (asking out of ignorance, I don't really know)?
There are Unix commands which will obtain information about the system. But they won't provide information about Tcl/Tk itself, nor about Tcl's "perspective" of the system (e.g. if you compile the Unix/X11 version of Tcl/Tk for Cygwin, $tcl_platform(platform) will be "unix", whereas for a native version it will be "windows". If there are problems with gis.m, then it's the Tcl information which really matters. > I don't think I've ever seen an instance where the output from > 'About System' has ever been used in a bug report; not that it couldn't, > of course. I wouldn't expect the information to be "volunteered", but it may be useful to be able to ask the user to provide this information without having to provide long, complex and error-prone instructions on how to obtain it. In that regard, it's important that the information is displayed in such a way that it can easily be copied into an email message (i.e. display it in a text widget, not a label). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
