Hamish wrote: >I think that's more a reflection on the way things are done in the MS >Windows world: the last program to install itself wins.
yes >Which leads to >the usual 1st trouble shooting step on Windows after seeing if a >rebooting helps: try uninstalling then reinstalling the program. Then >the program you are trying to use becomes the last thing to be installed >and magically wins again (but by breaking the previously installed >conflicting software). a not unusal way of fixing things ;-) Moritz Lennert wrote > On 27/04/14 22:52, Markus Metz wrote: >> I do not understand this ongoing discussion on WinGRASS7+Python. My >> proposed solution caters for all possibilities, in particular: >> >> - an existing incompatible .py file assocation >> [add your workaround here] >> >> - changes in any existing .py file association after GRASS has been >> installed >> [add your check-at-startup-mechanism here] > > I think we just have to agree to disagree on this at this stage, and > implement a solution that if not satisfying everyone, at least does not > dissatisfy anyone more than necessary. > > From the current discussion I take that the .bat file solution is one > that will satisfy those who want GRASS to "just work" on MS Windows > without putting any burden on the user. In order to not dissatisfy those > who do not want GRASS to impose a specific version of Python, it should > be easy to "switch" off the .bat file solution, i.e. by simply resetting > PATH and/or erasing the directory with the .bat files. > > Can everyone agree on that solution (not meaning that you consider it > the best solution, but that you can live with it) ? regarding "who do not want GRASS to impose a specific version of Python", have a look at: http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass/trunk/REQUIREMENTS.html - Python >= 2.6 (for temporal framework, scripts, wxGUI, and ctypes interface) Note: Python 3 support is still in development [...] - wxPython >= 2.8.10.1 (for wxGUI) [...] - NumPy >= 1.0.4 (for various wxGUI components and pyGRASS) [...] - Python dateutil Library ("python-dateutil", needed for the tgrass modules t.*) [...] - Python Imaging Library or PILLOW (highly recommended for wxGUI and necessary for wxGUI Cartographic Composer) so there are basically some kind of "minimum version of python and python package" requirements; this has to be communicated in a clear way to users "who do not want GRASS to impose a specific version of Python". regarding "switch" off the .bat file solution, there may be some more work than just resetting PATH and erasing bat files. ----- best regards Helmut -- View this message in context: http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/Handling-of-Python-scripts-on-MS-Windows-tp5081335p5137614.html Sent from the Grass - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
