On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:49 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Markus Neteler wrote: > >> I fully agree - but we can change only in GRASS 7 for backward >> compatibility. > > Markus, > > As long as I can continue working from the command line in 7 I'll be > happy. Shell scripts have worked so far and I do know some python so I can > work with that, too. > >> Please send this mail to the list... I would even rename v.in.ogr into >> v.import! > > Done. > > Well, why not v.import for all vectors? No separate modules for .e00, > .shp, and others. The file extension (or internal identifiers) can be used.
Beforehand I must say I am not a GRASS developer or familiar with the inner workings of GRASS - I am using grass from the commandline and via R. So I would not be very happy, if the commands v.i.ogr et al. would be dropped. Nevertheless, I really like the ide of having one command (v.import) which can be used to import all possible formats into GRASS - that would be awesome. But I would suggest to either leave the v.i.... commands and have v.import which calls the others depending on the input format which are actually importing the layer, or have one v.import which is importing the layers and v.in.... are just calling v.import. To deprecate a command without warning from one version to another, would be quite hard for all script users. Cheers, Rainer > The key factor is the same lable for input filename, output filename, areal > type (instead of 'area' and 'boundary'), and so on. Absolutely - but again, if possible please leave the already in use labels as well (possibly with warning) so that they can probably be removed in GRASS 8 Cheers, Rainer > >> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Markus, >>> >>> Just a thought for you developers to consider: make the file input >>> specifier the same for all modules. For example, in v.in.e00 we use >>> 'file,' in v.in.ogr we use 'dsn.' in v.proj we use 'input.' Why not make >>> them all 'input'? Same for the output name: make them all 'output' rather >>> than 'vect' and so on. >>> >>> Despite the push to GUIs, I'm sure that I'm not the only one who prefers >>> the command line interface. >>> >>> Rich > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user > -- NEW GERMAN FAX NUMBER!!! Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Natural Sciences Building Office Suite 2039 Stellenbosch University Main Campus, Merriman Avenue Stellenbosch South Africa Cell: +27 - (0)83 9479 042 Fax: +27 - (0)86 516 2782 Fax: +49 - (0)321 2125 2244 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug Google: [email protected] _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
