On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Glynn Clements <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Vaclav Petras wrote: > > > I'm afraid we have an issue with what we want. Do we want to remove msys > > in favor of native command line or do we want to have msys available > > because it is much better then the MS Windows native command line. > > Nothing stops the user from installing MSys if they want it. In fact, > users who are likely to want it may already have it installed, so we > shouldn't be installing a second copy (which may conflict with their > existing copy; even if it doesn't, they now have to configure and > maintain two copies). > > We shouldn't be forcing it on people. Whether it's "better" isn't the > issue. It's not what Windows users will be familiar with. It's not > what's going to be described if users search for documentation on > "Windows command line". > > GRASS 6 has to bundle MSys because GRASS 6 won't work without it. That > shouldn't be the case for GRASS 7. > > This sounds reasonable. If users want something better then what MS provides they should install it, as you say, or they should install different OS or use Python for scripting, I would say. I would also oppose adding new items to the start menu if we would come to this. Users are confused enough from the (already) provided options. -- > Glynn Clements <[email protected]> >
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