Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Hamish
Markus: > why not have both converters in Perl and Python? seems like too much double handling to me. just pick whichever one and go with it. sorting the rest out as needed is probably less work than trying to get the two to work in parallel. Hamish

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > >> I have reduced it to these errors here: > >> htmlmapdriver.html:63 > >> wxGUI.html:154 > >> wxGUI.Vector_Digitizing_Tool.html:210 > ... > > yeah, and  https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/612 > ... > > just one last repeat of the python vs. perl dep: > > Simple suggesti

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Hamish wrote: > Markus wrote: >> I have reduced it to these errors here: >> htmlmapdriver.html:63 >> wxGUI.html:154 >> wxGUI.Vector_Digitizing_Tool.html:210 ... > yeah, and  https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/612 ... > just one last repeat of the python vs. perl d

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Hamish
Markus wrote: > I have reduced it to these errors here: > htmlmapdriver.html:63 > wxGUI.html:154 > wxGUI.Vector_Digitizing_Tool.html:210 thanks, > Those are tricky issues (too tired now), yeah, and https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/612 (r37877 never got backported (or foreported) btw; I'm

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Glynn Clements wrote: ... > Back-porting is just a matter of copying g.html2man.py from 7.0 and > changing HTML2MAN in man/Makefile (remove the "sh"). [and add the .py extension of course] > Trying this, I get errors in 66 files, while 416 build without error. >

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-20 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > > IMHO, the main reason to stick with the Perl version isn't down to > > which language to make a required dependency, but the effort required > > to clean up the 6.x manpages. > > If the Python version would be backported to 6.5, I could walk through the > HTML pages, fi

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Markus Neteler
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Glynn Clements wrote: ... > IMHO, the main reason to stick with the Perl version isn't down to > which language to make a required dependency, but the effort required > to clean up the 6.x manpages. If the Python version would be backported to 6.5, I could walk th

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Glynn Clements
Hamish 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. > Hamish: > >>> At this point, my vote, AFA 6.4.0 goes, is to follow the > >>> path of least change. Which is to keep the existing perl

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Hamish 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

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Hamish
>>> 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. Hamish: >>> At this point, my vote, AFA 6.4.0 goes, is to follow the >>> path of least change. Which is to keep the existing perl >>> script

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Martin Landa wrote: > 2010/1/19 Hamish : >> 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. >> >> At this point, my vote, AFA 6.4.0 goes, is to follow the path

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Martin Landa
Hi, 2010/1/19 Hamish : > 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. > > At this point, my vote, AFA 6.4.0 goes, is to follow the path of > least change. Which is to keep the existing perl scri

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > > I've never noticed it, because man/Makefile silently skips building > > the manpages if Perl isn't present (I don't have it on Windows). > > That's right but "tar" complains (read: warns) about the missing man > stuff later. Perhaps it has to be conditionalized upon per

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-19 Thread Hamish
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. At this point, my vote, AFA 6.4.0 goes, is to follow the path of least change. Which is to keep the existing perl script. > OTOH, how many Windows use

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-18 Thread Markus Neteler
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Glynn Clements wrote: > > Markus Neteler wrote: > >> we try to compile winGRASS on a colleague's computer (XP), >> following >> https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows >> >> ./mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh >> ... >> checking for perl... no >> ... >> >> At

Re: [GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-18 Thread Glynn Clements
Markus Neteler wrote: > we try to compile winGRASS on a colleague's computer (XP), > following > https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows > > ./mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh > ... > checking for perl... no > ... > > At this point, MAN is not created, leading to a tar packaging error la

[GRASS-dev] winGRASS compilation: perl not found (needed for MAN)

2010-01-18 Thread Markus Neteler
Hi, we try to compile winGRASS on a colleague's computer (XP), following https://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows ./mswindows/osgeo4w/package.sh ... checking for perl... no ... At this point, MAN is not created, leading to a tar packaging error later. But: $ perl -v This is perl., v5.