On Oct 14, 2008, at 3:13 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 10:38:31 +0100
From: Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] removing gis.m from GRASS 7
To: Hamish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: grass-dev <grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
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Hamish wrote:
The TclTk GUI is set to be abandoned in GRASS 7. It will continue to
live in the GRASS 6 series.
last call for objections before the Tcl/Tk gis.m is removed from
GRASS 7.
(trunk/gui/tcltk/)
Not an objection, but is the wx GUI sufficient? Bear in mind that
XDRIVER has already disappeared from 7.0, so the GUI is even more
important in 7.0 than in 6.x.
TckTk has served GRASS well. However, AFAICT, wxPython can do more and
(in part due to changes in GUI design) is considerably faster. We
simply don't have the developer resources to support 2 GUI code bases.
(The GUI is not as modular as many other parts of GRASS and the size
of the code is much much larger.)
After Martin's Summer of Code project, porting nviz to wxPython, and
Glynn's work to port all relevant scripts, I think that everything
that needed TclTk is now in wxPython. There still needs to be a lot of
development and testing work, but many parts of the GUI are very
stable and more functional than their TclTk equivalents.
So I think that we can say a fond farewell to TclTk.
Michael
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