Actually, WinGRASS RC6 works pretty well on vista. This is the first gotcha we've encountered with the new build.
Michael On 4/9/08 1:41 AM, "GRASS GIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #118: r.patch fails on WinGRASS RC6 and earlier > -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- > Reporter: cmbarton | Owner: [email protected] > Type: defect | Status: new > Priority: critical | Milestone: 6.3.0 > Component: default | Version: 6.3.0 RCs > Resolution: | Keywords: > -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- > Comment (by 4everskiff): > > Replying to [comment:2 cmbarton]: >> Marco, >> >> It's failed on several student machines here. I don't have a windows > box, but will ask others to try. One of the systems that it failed on is > running Vista. I don't know if another one is Vista or XP. >> >> Michael > > Hi Michael, > > I think that Vista is the key. I build and test WinGRASS on XP, so I > cannot figure out how does it run on Vista. This links to an issue I > already pointed out in the list: it's a fact that any professionist or > scientist who works on Windows actually still uses xp or 2000, but the > future is on Vista, since new machines (specially notebooks) seem to not > work with xp, due to unreleased libraries for xp to manage new HD > architectures. Should we start to think to build on both Vista and XP, and > thus release two versions of WinGRASS? I think that, at least, we need to > intensively test on Vista. > > See also Glynn's point of view: http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass- > dev/2008-March/036820.html > > Marco __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
