On Thu, 9 Apr 2009, Colin Nielsen wrote:
Question for those who are testing: do you prefer the msys version (with a functioning terminal) or the other one (which runs grass64.bat)? Both is probably confusing, but I don't want to remove the older grass64.bat option without consultation from those who created it on their specific reasons for it.
The reason for it is so GRASS can be started on Windows without having to install Msys. Msys is only needed for a few scripts - with GRASS 7 where all the scripts have been converted to Python there should be no need for Msys at all. Helena's argument about it being helpful to have a mini-Unix environment with familiar Unix commands is very valid though. But for testing/development purposes I think it's best to leave the Msys commands out of the PATH as having them installed can hide Unix-isms in GRASS - there was quite a bit of work went into removing these a couple of years ago and making GRASS truly native on Windows without the need for Msys.
Hope that clarifies things a bit? Paul _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
