#7: Location wizard: should predefine DB connection for new location
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Reporter: neteler | Owner: [email protected]
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: Python | Version: svn-trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by hamish):
As mentioned before, I do not think that the VAR file should be a part of
the default MAPSET folder specification.
see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/22676
e.g. for users who mainly work with rasters this is unneeded filesystem
noise.
C modules which require a DB to be set should be exiting with an error if
none is found (suggesting to run db.connect). Scripts like v.db.add* can
run that automatically if needed. Any other module bugs can be fixed,
exiting with an error is not much work if that doesn't happen already,
just check a return code.
Since I commented out the auto-set to DBF in 6.3cvs's init.sh 3 months ago
there have been no complaints about the change. This is not done in 6.2
either, no complaints there.
Hamish
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