[GRASS-dev] Re: grass-dev Digest, Vol 22, Issue 31

On Feb 9, 2008, at 12:01 AM, grass-dev-request@lists.osgeo.org wrote:

Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:32:23 -0800 (PST)
From: Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [GRASS-dev] rename wxgrass / g.gui
To: Martin Landa <landa.martin@gmail.com>, GRASS developers list
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Martin Landa wrote:

I remember there was discussion about renaming wxgrass [1]. Before
wxgui will be used by users, I would like to raise this question
again.

...

[1]
[GRASS-dev] rename 'wxgrass'?

the whole thread, more ideas:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.devel/21880

I think we should rename wxgrass script to wxgui

+1, although it is a bit generic?
eg possible namespace collision with python-gnuradio. [apt-file search]
(that seems just to be a directory name, but ...)
I guess as long as it's an internal grass module and not in /usr/bin
it's ok?

+1

When do you want to do it? ASAP as far as I'm concerned.

and create module like g.gui or whatever (?)

+0 for the name. Sounds ok.

+0 for me too.

Sounds OK. I can help if it's a Python or Bash script, not if it's in C

Michael

I suppose g.gui will be a script, and it should use the normal parser
unless there is some big reason not to. So --tcltk option would become
  g.gui gui=[wxpy|tcltk|oldtcltk]
or whatever names you like, with the default set to ...

IIUC d.m and gis.m will be dropped for GRASS 7. I think it is ok to
mandate Python for GRASS 7 but we should keep it optional for GRASS 6.
.... So what language to write g.gui in?
Both /bin/sh + .bat versions depending on platform via Makefile magic?
Do it in C?

Hamish

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