Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-24 Thread Moritz Lennert
On 23/04/15 16:25, Vaclav Petras wrote: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Carlos Grohmann carlos.grohm...@gmail.com mailto:carlos.grohm...@gmail.com wrote: That was an interesting discussion, I'm sorry I missed it (should pay more attention...) I think that modules names should be

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-23 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:41 AM, Carlos Grohmann carlos.grohm...@gmail.com wrote: That was an interesting discussion, I'm sorry I missed it (should pay more attention...) I think that modules names should be descriptive. When I started learning GRASS (and GIS), back in my Masters, I knew what

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-23 Thread Vaclav Petras
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Carlos Grohmann carlos.grohm...@gmail.com wrote: Well, maybe we can think on this again in the near future?.. The issue is that we must keep API compatible in major version following semantic versioning (http://semver.org/). We can rename items in the menu

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-23 Thread Carlos Grohmann
Well, maybe we can think on this again in the near future?.. I always think on my students and in people coming from the ArcGIS world.. If I were just beginning in GRASS, looking at the modules' names, I would definitely think that relief shading would be done with r.shade, not r.relief (which

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-23 Thread Carlos Grohmann
That was an interesting discussion, I'm sorry I missed it (should pay more attention...) I think that modules names should be descriptive. When I started learning GRASS (and GIS), back in my Masters, I knew what r.shaded.relief would do. I wouldn't be sure in the case of r.relief or r.shade. If

[GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-22 Thread Carlos Grohmann
Hi I just installed the latest pkg for GRASS 7 on OSX (nice splash screen BTW) and r.shaded.relief is now just r.relief Is it too much if ask why this change? To me, r.shaded.relief is so much better, it describes the module. r.relief might be confusing (is it to calculate some rellief-related

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-22 Thread Vaclav Petras
Hi Carlos, On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:44 AM, Carlos Grohmann carlos.grohm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I just installed the latest pkg for GRASS 7 on OSX (nice splash screen BTW) and r.shaded.relief is now just r.relief Is it too much if ask why this change? To me, r.shaded.relief is so much

Re: [GRASS-dev] GRASS 7: r.shaded.relief changed name?

2015-04-22 Thread Helena Mitasova
I agree with Carlos on this , I think r.shaded.relief was pretty clear what it was doing. As I learned recently, r.relief indeed can be confused with any of the numerous relief metrics. Helena On Wednesday, April 22, 2015, Vaclav Petras wenzesl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Carlos, On Wed, Apr 22,