Sounds like this needs to be updated soon. I'm surprised that it doesn't kick out an error for the native Windows version.
Michael On 8/7/07 10:07 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Aug 7, 2007, at 12:44 AM, Michael Barton wrote: > >> I started messing around with a python replacement for init.sh, >> just to see >> what is needed. It is going pretty well, but tedious. Once done (and >> probably won't work right off) it could be a good opportunity to >> clean up >> the start up script for GRASS. Thinking ahead to a time when the >> same script >> can start GRASS on all platforms. >> >> Michael >> > Yeah, I just noticed a another oddity in init.sh related to wx - the > gui dependency test is still based on X. While wxpython on other > 'nix platforms may need X, it doesn't on OSX, and probably not on > Windows either. Summarized: > > if DISPLAY set (though it may be set but no X is available, at least > on OSX) > test gui dependency - python for wx, wish for tcltk > if it fails > warn that *wish* doesn't work (oops) > else > no gui possible > if a gui is set > warn that *X* is not available, and there a gui is not possible > (oops again) > > Instead of testing the gui dependency first, maybe this should test > the gui setting first: > > case GRASS_GUI: > tcltk, etc) > test X availability > or better, ignore DISPLAY and test only wish - if it works, X is > implied, or whatever graphical base needed (this would take care of > native tcltk implementations, like Aqua or Windows, not that they > work well) > wx) > test python availability (X implied if needed - as long as > python works) > > > ...just some thoughts... > > ----- > William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com> > http://www.kyngchaos.com/ > > "We are at war with them. Neither in hatred nor revenge and with no > particular pleasure I shall kill every ___ I can until the war is > over. That is my duty." > > "Don't you even hate 'em?" > > "What good would it do if I did? If all the many millions of people > of the allied nations devoted an entire year exclusively to hating > the ____ it wouldn't kill one ___ nor shorten the war one day." > > <Ha, ha> "And it might give 'em all stomach ulcers." > > - Tarzan, on war > > __________________________________________ Michael Barton, Professor of Anthropology Director of Graduate Studies School of Human Evolution & Social Change Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity Arizona State University phone: 480-965-6213 fax: 480-965-7671 www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
