#1950: wingrass: replace rxvt with conhost.exe -----------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@… Type: task | Status: new Priority: major | Milestone: 6.4.4 Component: Packaging | Version: svn-develbranch6 Keywords: wingrass | Platform: MSWindows 7 Cpu: All | -----------------------+----------------------------------------------------
Comment(by glynn): Replying to [ticket:1950 hamish]: > the task: replace msys's rxvt.exe with Microsoft's built in conhost.exe terminal emulator. > > IIUC, conhost.exe is new for Windows7, Windows XP doesn't have it. At least mine doesn't in C:\windows\system32. If so that's a problem, half of the world's installed Windows systems are still running XP. The console window was part of the csrss.exe (Client-Server Runtime Sub- System) service prior to Windows 7. The exact details aren't important; all versions of Windows automatically create a console window if a "console mode" program is run without an existing console (e.g. from a desktop icon or start menu entry). > (I've used it a bunch and not run into any problems, so beyond the above I'm not really seeing what all the fuss is about. what exactly about it is buggy?) I've found that copy+paste often caused rxvt to crash. But given that a number of 6.x modules either use curses or modify their behaviour depending upon whether isatty() returns true for stdin/stdout, the fact that rxvt won't work correctly with those modules can also be considered a bug. > the bug where msys converts and C: to /c/ in strings when you don't want it to -- is that msys's rxvt or something else in their bash.exe? That's bash. And it's largely unavoidable if it's to be compatible with scripts written for Unix. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1950#comment:5> GRASS GIS <http://grass.osgeo.org> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev