I'm in favor of anything that can make installation and use easier for the user, so that they can focus on solving problems with the software, not solving problems IN the software ;-)
Michael On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:21 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 23:55:12 -0500 > From: Helena Mitasova <[email protected]> > Subject: [GRASS-dev] grass64 install for Mac > To: GRASS developers grass-developers <[email protected]> > Cc: William Kyngesburye <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Just a follow up on the Mac installation issues: > > as I mentioned several users reported problems switching from tcltk GUI to > wxGUI: > after running g.gui in all possible ways they kept getting an error message. > It turns out that the problem was missing FFTW3 library (on Leopard only?) > - after installing the correct version of FFTW3 everything runs fine. > > Another most common problem was people forgetting to install Active Tcl > and then complaining that nviz keeps crashing. Or they thought that Active > Tcl is needed only for Tcltk GUI and when they are running wxpython GUI it is > not needed. > > Everything is written on the web site so there isn't really a problem as long > as > the users read carefully the instructions (what nobody does these days). > As more OS versions and GRASS releases have been added to the web page > people simply overlook important issues. > > So William and others on Mac, I am wondering whether it would help for future > to have the instructions for Snow Leopard written in a simpler way something > like this > > For Snow Leopard install: > - Unix Compatibility Frameworks: SQLite3, FreeType, UnixImageIO, PROJ, GEOS, > and GDAL > - ActiveTcl 8.5 (not 8.6) from ActiveState > - GRASS.app 64 > - sample data set from here: link > > (I am not sure I have it right, but I assume that Python, wxPython and FFTW3 > does not have to be installed separately) > > For older Mac OS X versions I would keep it as is. > > I am not sure that this is the best solution, others may have better ideas, > > thank you, > > Helena > > > _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
