Michael, How about making it a Summer of Code project, perhaps we can find some windows programmer who wants to help us?
--Wolf On 26.03.2009 21:21, Michael Barton wrote: > Whether you like it or not, it is nearly impossible to get a new PC > without Windows Vista today. If we want GRASS to be accessible to > Windows users, we need to have versions that run under Vista. > > Over the past year, the development team have worked to solve many > issues that kept GRASS from running under Vista in the past. The only > problem now is that there are no Windows Vista binaries for users. > Furthermore, there is no current stand-alone Windows binary for GRASS at > all. > > Marco Pasetti made a very nice Windows installer for 6.3 last year, but > is unable to continue this work. > > Other folks in OSGEO have created OSGEO4W with a number of packages. > However, GRASS is in the 'advanced' section--and it is not clear what > libraries need to be downloaded with it--and it cannot be installed > stand-alone. > > Also, as far as I can tell, the OSGEO4W binary is compiled with Windows > XP. It opens in Vista but various modules insidiously fail (e.g. > r.patch, v.patch, v.what.rast, and others). Anyone who installs GRASS > under Windows Vista will perceive it as a very buggy and semi-functional > program. > > So if we are serious about making GRASS as cross-platform as we claim, > we need some windows knowledgeable volunteers who can 1) help the > OSGEO4W team create a Vista version and 2) produce binary versions of > GRASS for XP and Vista to go along with the current Linux and Mac > versions. The current GRASS dev team has done a fantastic job over the > past 2 years of making GRASS compilable under Windows, but are working > hard on maintaining and developing the module and interface code. > > So we really need some new volunteers to tackle maintaining Windows > binaries. Is there anyone able to take this on? > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > grass-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev -- <:3 )---- Wolf Bergenheim ----( 8:> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
