Martin wrote:
> The file layout should be consolidated.
> Currently vectors are located in 'vector' directory,
....
> I would vote for similar approach for raster files in
> GRASS 7. So
>
> raster/name/cats
> raster/name/cell
> raster/name/cellhd
> raster/name/cell_misc
> raster/name/colr
> raster/name/fcell
> raster/name/hist
> ...
>
> Any comments?
Glynn:
Agreed. Except that there's no reason for the cell_misc
directory to exist in such a layout.One of the main reasons I added r.external was so that we
could do this and fall back to GDAL for accessing the legacy
layout. We really don't want to be supporting both layouts
concurrently.However, for that to work, we need to make GDAL's GRASS
support independent of the GRASS libraries.To avoid legal problems with GDAL binaries (libgis is GPL,
not LGPL), the code would ideally be re-written from scratch
(AIUI, FP and null support were added after the switch to GPL,
so using the public-domain CERL code won't get you very far).If anyone is interested in doing this, I can write up
documentation of the file formats.
this seems like a reasonable and sound approach.
may I suggest to write up documentation in a form suitable for
easy Doxygen integration?
should clean-room author aim for MIT/X (full integration into
GDAL release) or LGPL (more in line with the spirit of our
project; continues as a GDAL plugin) ?
Hamish