On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Hamish <hamis...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>> Glynn wrote: >>>>> Maybe we should use the Python version from 7.0? Many users >>>>> will want Python anyhow, whereas Perl is only used for >>>>> g.html2man. ... > Martin: >>> OK, anyway I would vote to replace Perl script in 6.5. ... > actually now that I think about it, this is much more of a > shift in policy and I'm not sure if we should think about it > for 6.5 either. > > Remember that currently python is not a mandatory build dep for > GRASS 6.x.
Good point. > Also AFAIK python does not come preinstalled on e.g. debian as > a base package, but perl does. Well, but Debian is not the gold standard (sorry). On other systems it does. > So we are making python a mandatory build dep for ... getting > man(1) pages working on MS Windows ?? seems very dis- > proportionate to me. I darkly remember a new GUI :) But I agree that Python is not a mandatory build dep for GRASS 6.x. Markus _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
