It's been doing this for a long time. I don't know where it is doing this.

Michael Barton
School of Human Evolution &Social Change
Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
Arizona State University

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On Jul 28, 2012, at 2:08 PM, "William Kyngesburye" <[email protected]> 
wrote:

> GRASS should not be automatically adding the desktop (ie ~/Desktop) to 
> GRASS_ADDON_PATH.  In the Mac startup, it should only be 
> 
> ~/Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/bin
> /Library/GRASS/6.4/Modules/bin
> 
> (substitute GRASS version), plus anything the user set for GRASS_ADDON_PATH 
> in .bash_profile or other shell init.
> 
> On Jul 28, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>> So I am digging into why GRASS GUI is crashing on start up. A couple days 
>> ago, I found that adding the LANG: ... line to .grassrc6 prevented this. 
>> 
>> In continuing to dig into this today, I think that fix was a red herring. 
>> That is not why it is crashing. The reason it is crashing is because the Mac 
>> desktop is by default added to GRASS_ADDON_PATH and globalvar.py is grabbing 
>> some hidden, non-parsable file names when it scans the desktop for GRASS 
>> commands. I don't understand why it is getting these hidden files from the 
>> desktop and not getting the same junk when it scans other folders, but the 
>> most limited fix for this is adding...
>> 
>> if fname[0:2] not in ['d.','g.','r.','v.','i.','m.','p.','r3','db']: continue
>> 
>> after line 153 in globalvar.py
>> 
>> To make sure that globalvar.py only picks up legitimate commands, however, 
>> it would probably be good to add something like this to all folder scans or 
>> maybe to filter the resulting command list before it is returned. Before 
>> doing either of those, I want to make sure that I have not missed any GRASS 
>> command prefixes. Does this list look comprehensive?
>> 
>> ['d.','g.','r.','v.','i.','m.','p.','r3','db']
>> 
>> After this issue is solved, I can look again at the locale issue. It *looks* 
>> like it should be doing the right thing (the change set I quoted yesterday 
>> was out of date), but something is not quite working somewhere.
>> 
>> Michael
>> _____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program
>> National Center for Atmospheric Research &
>> University Consortium for Atmospheric Research
>> 303-497-2889 (voice)
>> 
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity 
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> 
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