Hi Michael, Good to hearing about it. By the way, many of the machines we by today is 64bits, and also some of us need to handle very large files (>4GB).
Best wishes milton 2009/3/26 Michael Barton <[email protected]> > Whether you like it or not, it is nearly impossible to get a new PC without > Windows Vista today. If we want GRASS to be accessible to Windows users, we > need to have versions that run under Vista. > > Over the past year, the development team have worked to solve many issues > that kept GRASS from running under Vista in the past. The only problem now > is that there are no Windows Vista binaries for users. Furthermore, there is > no current stand-alone Windows binary for GRASS at all. > > Marco Pasetti made a very nice Windows installer for 6.3 last year, but is > unable to continue this work. > > Other folks in OSGEO have created OSGEO4W with a number of packages. > However, GRASS is in the 'advanced' section--and it is not clear what > libraries need to be downloaded with it--and it cannot be installed > stand-alone. > > Also, as far as I can tell, the OSGEO4W binary is compiled with Windows XP. > It opens in Vista but various modules insidiously fail (e.g. r.patch, > v.patch, v.what.rast, and others). Anyone who installs GRASS under Windows > Vista will perceive it as a very buggy and semi-functional program. > > So if we are serious about making GRASS as cross-platform as we claim, we > need some windows knowledgeable volunteers who can 1) help the OSGEO4W team > create a Vista version and 2) produce binary versions of GRASS for XP and > Vista to go along with the current Linux and Mac versions. The current GRASS > dev team has done a fantastic job over the past 2 years of making GRASS > compilable under Windows, but are working hard on maintaining and developing > the module and interface code. > > So we really need some new volunteers to tackle maintaining Windows > binaries. Is there anyone able to take this on? > > Michael > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >
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