On 24/10/14 04:20, Vaclav Petras wrote:

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Glynn Clements
<[email protected] <mailto:[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.

+1

Moritz
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