Moritz Lennert wrote > 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 I'm still in favour to keep it. anyway in case of not shipping msys, there are a some places needed to be adapted in the nsis-script [1] and the package script [2]. AFAIR years ago there was some issue with the g.mkfontcap run during installation which needed msys in %path%. 549 FileWrite $0 'set FREETYPEBASE=$INSTALL_DIR\extrabin;$INSTALL_DIR\msys\bin;$INSTALL_DIR\lib$\r$\n' [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl [2] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Packager.bat.tmpl [3] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/mswindows/GRASS-Installer.nsi.tmpl#L549 ----- best regards Helmut -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/WinGRASS71svn-using-Windows-shell-not-bourne-shell-thogh-MSYS-is-installed-tp5168808p5169350.html Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
