GRASS GIS wrote: > I wonder if some sort of > requirement in GRASS 7 development would be a good idea to stick to > POSIX/SUS commands?
Well, we normally try to follow that rule already, but we don't all have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the standards, so the use of non-portable features often occurs, and may go unnoticed for some time. We don't have the resource to run extensive audits. Also, some scripts may require utilities beyond anything which is specified by POSIX. E.g. there isn't any POSIX-mandated equivalent of wget or curl. In any case, for 7.x we should be moving to Python for scripts. That should largely eliminate the need to call external utilities. Simple text processing, as is normally performed with cat/sort/grep/sed etc, can be implemented in a few lines of code using only core functions. More complex utilities often have equivalent modules (e.g. httplib instead of wget/curl). -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
