Markus Metz wrote: > In general I think it is a good idea to have all the > settings and other stuff, e.g. grass-addons,
sorry to complicate the discussion, but fwiw the meaning of the grass-addons dir is another unresolved issue we'lll need to deal with-- it started life as something user defined to concatenate onto $PATH, but now is also used like --prefix=, and so we have this confusing hybrid of both. > in one single folder, and not scattered around. But that is a > design change already implemented in grass7. > > Since there seems to be a majority to not introduce these > changes to 6.x, I will revert the changes I did to 6.5 and also > change some backports from trunk to 6.x regarding the file > where wxGUI settings are stored, i.e. 6.x shall use .grasswx6 > as in pre-6.4.2. to clarify what I meant & why- I'm not so concerned about ~/.grasswx6, as that's quite new and not as likely to be accessed by user's own scripts, literature, experience & expectations where to find things when things break (1,000 archive posts telling people to remove/edit that file if it gets broken), etc. What I am really really concerned about is changing ~/.grassrc6, which is a core file that has stood like that since 6.0, 6.2, 6.3.0, 6.4, and 'til now all our hard efforts to maintain compatibility through all the grass 6 line has been unwaivering*. [*] A notable compatibility exception was the vector/dbln file format which we necessarily had to change to allow for spaces in path names, but I think the solution we finally came to helped the transition happen without any ill effects or anyone really noticing. While not really relevant beyond the "it was like that in 6.x for historical reasons" understanding, fwiw I'd mention ~/.grassrc5 and for earlier grass 4 "~/.grassrc" have been there since the 1990s, and perhaps the 1980s too? since stability = discipline * time, and one of our great strengths is time. whenever we cut old roots and reset that clock to 0 it's a great loss to one of our core assets. thanks, Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-dev
