[GRASS-dev] r.info -g

[Hamish]

Martin wrote:
> >> r.info module has a lot of flags [1] which print *given*
> >information > to stdout. From my point of view it would be better
> >(maybe) to have > only *one* flag for this purpose, e.g.
> >>
> >>   -g   Print basic information in shell script style
> >>
> >> What do you think about it? It should not break any scripts in CVS
> >> tree (maybe Add-ons?). Sure, it is not a good way -- to break
> >backward > compatibility... on the other hand, just adding new flag
> >-g is not > also nice solution.

Glynn wrote:
> > We shouldn't remove existing flags, but an additional flag to print
> > all available information in a parsable format would be a useful
> > addition.

Maciej Sieczka wrote:
> Glynn's right. But I hope that in Grass 7 the flag for a *complete*,
> parsable r.info output could be changed to -g anyway (since g.region,
> v.univar, v.db.connect, v.category, r.univar, r.sunmask, r.in.xyz use
> it already).

consistency is good.

> Should it go to Grass 7 plans WIKI?

Let's just do this in 6.3-HEAD. Adding more lines to the "r.info -g"
shouldn't be too damaging. The only problem it could cause (that I can
think of) is if someone used something like `r.info -g | tail -1` in a
script. I think that's minor enough and poorly written enough to not be
a major concern.


Hamish