Michael Barton wrote:
A point on digitizing. If you haven't tried it, you should take a look
at the digitizing that Martin has built into the new GUI. Because it
has hot-key equivalents for all buttons, you CAN digitize with your
right hand on the mouse and left on the keyboard. It also has a lot of
contextual menus that you access by right clicking while you digitize
rather than having to move to a separate text area like in 5.4.
Ah, I hadn't realized that. Is that in GRASS 7? I don't use GRASS
enough to compile the unstable versions, but now it's the first thing
I am going to do on Monday. Takes away my only major problem with GRASS.
BTW, I see that I asked for this last February
(http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2009-February/048986.html).
Don't know if that was the reason for the hot-keys, but thanks anyway.
If that is too much trouble, I would be perfectly happy to use older
versions of GRASS for dedicated purposes, provided I could use the
same mapsets. Copying and converting maps between different versions
if the program is a major source of errors, some of them very
insidious. Would that be an alternative for retaining old
functionality: reading directly from old-style databases?
This is not something I do any coding for, but AFAIK, GRASS will
continue to be able to read GRASS files from the past, either directly
or via translation.
It's not that important for me any more now, but perhaps older versions
of GRASS could be bundled as Qgis in OsGeo4W, where you can install one
or more of four versions. For Linux, you could think of distributing
them like the FWTools utilities: each version in a single directory
tree, including all the dependencies (and even a complete Python). That
way, different versions can be used without conflicts between library
versions. At least, that is the way I manage them on the cluster I am
working on, to get quick functional copies on different nodes.
Jan
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