Re: [GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 7:40 AM, Helmut Kudrnovsky wrote: > > maybe let's spend some money to fix some crucial OS-depending issues... > I think that this a very good idea. Do you have a concrete idea how to do that? ___ grass-dev mailing list grass-dev@li

[GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Glynn Clements
Moritz Lennert wrote: > > But in the longer term, should we be claiming to support a platform > > for which we appear to have no active developers? > > I think that the question merits discussion. In my teaching experience > it has been very helpful to have a MS Windows version to allow student

Re: [GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Newcomb, Doug
I agree with Martin and Helmut. In my experience, the bulk of the existing GIS users are using Windows and those using GIS professionally are often in work environments where the use of virtual machines or installation of other OS's is prohibited. The unfortunate fact is that many GIS users have

Re: [GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Helmut Kudrnovsky
Martin Landa wrote > Hi, > > 2014-07-02 13:22 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert < > mlennert@.worldonline > >: >> [Starting a new thread as this is an important point on its own. Original >> mail is [1].] >> >> On 02/07/14 01:10, Glynn Clements wrote:> But in the longer term, should >> we >> be claiming

Re: [GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2014-07-02 13:22 GMT+02:00 Moritz Lennert : > [Starting a new thread as this is an important point on its own. Original > mail is [1].] > > On 02/07/14 01:10, Glynn Clements wrote:> But in the longer term, should we > be claiming to support a platform >> for which we appear to have no active d

[GRASS-dev] future of GRASS for Windows [was: Re: [GRASS-SVN] r60679 - grass/trunk/lib/python/script]

2014-07-02 Thread Moritz Lennert
[Starting a new thread as this is an important point on its own. Original mail is [1].] On 02/07/14 01:10, Glynn Clements wrote:> But in the longer term, should we be claiming to support a platform > for which we appear to have no active developers? I think that the question merits discussion