On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec <mojca@macports.org> wrote:
Hi,
I'm sorry, but I forgot my password.
I wanted to reply to this ticket:
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/2167
but I'm sending you an email as figuring out how to recover the
password will take a while and then I'll forget to update the ticket
etc.Yes, wxPython 2.8 *works* on OS X 10.9, but only if someone compiles
it for you (if you download binaries from somewhere else) and even
then it's some kind of a pain because Python needs to be started in
32-bit mode and all the dependencies need to be fixed properly etc.
etc. One cannot compile wxPython 2.8 on 64-bit mac and so GRASS
*cannot* work on MacPorts (which compiles everything from source) or
with any other package manager that might support GRASS (I didn't
check if other package managers support it or not).Basically it boils down to this:
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2013-January/061635.html
Citing the user criticising the usage of wxPython:> I'm a mac user as well and i will be happy to help,
>
> … i built grass weekly (if not daily) in the past,
> but unfortunately now i'm on mac 10.8.x using 64bit python,
> all my python packages numpy scipy etc etc etc .. are 64 bit and ...
>
> WX gui unfortunately doesn't works on mac in 64 bit mode …
> i'm waiting the 2.9.x to be stable that is 2 years now ...
>
> This IMO can be one of the major reason of "lack of mac-man-dev-power"There have been a lot of bug reports about problems with Grass in
MacPorts, but if users aren't able to use software at all, they go
away, switch the OS, find other software etc. So users are lost.> I have Mac OS X 10.9 where GRASS runs with wxPython 2.8.
Yes. But you need to fetch binaries from elsewhere and install all the
dependencies yourself, manually. That's not acceptable for MacPorts
and other package managers.> Besides, GRASS 6.4 and 7 should work with wxPython 3,
> although it's not well tested and you can expect some problems
> which can be fixed when someone reports them.The tickets asks for fixing these problems exactly. Grass 6.4.3 keeps
causing constant problems with wxPython 3.0, at least on Mac it's
nearly useless. I didn't test the nightly yet, but to be honest I'm
not even sure how to use the software, so there's not much I can test.
It asks for a file. I don't have any file to start with, so it's a bit
difficult. I was just trying to fix some build problems in MacPorts,
I'm not really a GRASS user.
I don't really have time to fix the problems in GRASS 6.4 GUI, the code
differs a lot from GRASS 7 where all the development now goes on and
hopefully there will be some stable release soon. I always try to fix the
problems related to wxPython 3 there as long as someone reports them. And
I would say that wxGUI in G7 mostly works, but I tested it only on Linux. I
would like to try it on Mac too but I don't have much time, that's the main
problem. I understand it's difficult to test GRASS for you, the quickstart
[1] is not exactly quick and you have to download the sample data first.
Anna
[1] http://grass.osgeo.org/grass70/manuals/helptext.html
(And I wasn't too serious about Phoenix. Yes, it make sense to take a
look, but it's not a huge priority at the moment.)Mojca