#1223: g.mapsets access from menu broken
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Reporter: cmbarton | Owner: martinl
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: wxGUI | Version: svn-trunk
Keywords: | Platform: MacOSX
Cpu: OSX/Intel |
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Comment(by glynn):
Replying to [comment:2 martinl]:
> g.mapsets doesn't start from the cli because all parameters are
optional. Probably we could change this behaviour in GRASS7.
Note that GRASS 7 intentionally doesn't launch a GUI when all required
parameters are provided. In 6.x, modules which want to be able to run
without parameters must skip the call to G_parser() if no parameters are
given. The problem here is that G_parser() performs some necessary tasks
even when no options are provided, so it should always be called.
The real problem is that "required" options have to be marked as optional
if there are any special cases which eliminate the requirement, e.g. the
"-l" flag in the case of g.mapsets. Ideally, we should add a mechanism to
allow such flags to suppress the checking of required options, so that the
->required field can be set based upon normal usage rather than a worst-
case scenario.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1223#comment:4>
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