Grass and Vista

[Bob English]

Hi All,

A few of weeks ago, I downloaded and installed QGIS and GRASS using
the OSGeo4W setup program on Windows Vista Business.  Like others (I
looked at the bug reports), I've had trouble using the GRASS plugin
for QGIS.  I also experience crashes of GRASS.  I installed GRASS 6.4
ORC4 on Vista, and that version works fairly well by itself, although
I'm not able to connect to my PostgreSQL database as of yet (perhaps a
Vista file permission problem?).

My question is have the outstanding Vista bugs been solved and
incorporated into the current OSGeo4W setup version so that GRASS and
QGIS work together?  If not, is there any information on when this
might happen?

Thanks,
Bob

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[Markus Neteler]

Bob,

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 6:18 PM, Bob English <[hidden email]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> A few of weeks ago, I downloaded and installed QGIS and GRASS using
> the OSGeo4W setup program on Windows Vista Business.  Like others (I
> looked at the bug reports), I've had trouble using the GRASS plugin
> for QGIS.  I also experience crashes of GRASS.  I installed GRASS 6.4
> ORC4 on Vista, and that version works fairly well by itself, although
> I'm not able to connect to my PostgreSQL database as of yet (perhaps a
> Vista file permission problem?).

According to
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/wiki/CompileOnWindows
the standalone winGRASS installer was compiled without PostgreSQL
support.

> My question is have the outstanding Vista bugs been solved and
> incorporated into the current OSGeo4W setup version so that GRASS and
> QGIS work together?  If not, is there any information on when this
> might happen?

Central problems have been fixed. The standalone winGRASS installer
was updated yesterday:
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass64/binary/mswindows/native/WinGRASS-6.4.0SVN-r36903-1-Setup.exe

The OSGeo4W Installer version is from 29-Mar-2009, so lagging a bit
behind. An update is best asked on the OSGeo4W mailing list, see
http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo4w/wiki

In general, we hope to get out GRASS 6.4.0final soon, then all binary
packages will be aligned.

Markus
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