#499: fresh windows startup not very friendly ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Reporter: hamish | Owner: [email protected] Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0 Component: default | Version: 6.4.0 RCs Resolution: | Keywords: wingrass startup Platform: MSWindows XP | Cpu: x86-32 ---------------------------+------------------------------------------------ Changes (by marisn):
* priority: major => minor Comment: Replying to [comment:2 hamish]: > > Tcl/Tk GUI doesn't check presence of .grassrc6 or any other file. > > my wish is that it should check for that, and if it isn't found it should pop up a file system browse window to help you choose/create the $GISDBASE dir. Sorry, I was wrong. Actual startup goes like this: * init.sh checks presence of .grassrc6 or whatever it's called for current version * if there is no one, it creates one with GISDBASE=pwd, '<UNKNOWN>' location etc. * gis_set.tcl searches for .grassrc6 file and parses it * after parsing rc file, it validates GISDBASE, location and mapset. As '<UNKNOWN>' most likely will not be valid location in current directory, validation procedure displays a warning. > > > Probably it would be better to remove completely presetting > > location etc. in init scripts > > no way, that's super useful. just deal with the lack of .grassrc6 gracefully, that's all. Can You, please, explain usefullines of .grassrc6 file with location <UNKNOWN> and mapset <UNKNOWN>? > > > As goes for GISDBASE creation, I will take a look into this > > problem later this weekend. > > thanks. Would r35911 make things better? svn up Your develbranch, rm .grassrc6 and start GRASS. If it's OK, merge to release branch. Still it may be a good idea to set GISDBASE for first run to user home dir on windows. Still I have no idea how to do that. And will it work safe with spaces in path? Do we have windows gurus here? Hamish? Patches welcome :) Not RTFMing is not a major GRASS issue. It's PEBKAC. And if windows doesn't provide multitasking feature (ability to switch to other application to create simple folder) then is it worth to run GRASS there? -- Ticket URL: <https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/499#comment:3> GRASS GIS <http://grass.osgeo.org>
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