tcltkgrass: yes or no

GRASS GRASS user
1

O.K., I must stop beating around the bush and get GRASS up and running on
a SGI and SUN (Solaris2.3). I have the compiled binaries from moon and also
the tcltkgrass source files from LAS on moon. I would really like to get
tcltkgrass going after seeing the demos at the User's Conference in Reston,
besides, I will have to move to tcltkgrass eventually. But most importantly,
I need GRASS running soon, within a couple weeks if possible.

My question is this: Should I get GRASS4.1 going first and worry about
tcltkgrass later, or can I just jump right into tcltkgrass with not too much\
extra effort? Are there enough of you out there who have tcltkgrass experience
to help me get it going if I run into problems? So I am asking for the
wisdom of others who have already traveled this road: Start with GRASS4.1,
worry about tcltkgrass later, or start with tcltkgrass, it's not much more
difficult than GRASS4.1 itself?

Any discussion would be very much appreciated!

-Steve Dzurenko
Ocean Mapping Division
Ocean Technology Center
Graduate School of Oceanography
University of Rhode Island

2

grass user (grass@omdcdec.gso.uri.edu) writes on 27 Jun 94:

a SGI and SUN (Solaris2.3). I have the compiled binaries from moon and also

My question is this: Should I get GRASS4.1 going first and worry about
tcltkgrass later, or can I just jump right into tcltkgrass with not too much\

you must have the former to use the latter.

to help me get it going if I run into problems? So I am asking for the
wisdom of others who have already traveled this road: Start with GRASS4.1,
worry about tcltkgrass later, or start with tcltkgrass, it's not much more
difficult than GRASS4.1 itself?

worry about tcltkgrass later (like when a new version is released).
As I recall, after only 3-4 minutes of looking at it, it became
very apparent that it was never compiled for Solaris. I would suspect
that you would have major problems as well on an SGI.

Don't get me wrong - tcltkgrass is much heralded and probably
works great for some systems. However, there seemed to be a
lot of the source code that was not quite ready for prime time.

I'm holding out for a newer version.

--Darrell