[GRASS-dev] some questions about future development

[Martin Landa]

Hi,

2008/8/18 Michael Barton <michael.barton at asu.edu>:
>> 2 - geometry highlighting: when selecting features from the attributes
>> table
>> (wxGUI), it would be nice to make the geometries highlighted in the map
>> window... See next section.

in my TODO for next week ;-)

> Just a note to the development team. Except for #1, these are all
> GUI/interface issues. I haven't calculated the size of the wxPython code
> base, but when I checked about a year ago, the TclTk code took up over
> 18,000 lines of code. The many C modules are what makes GRASS 'work' and

Python code: more them 37,000 lines
C++ code: almost 30,000 lines

very roughly, just `wc -l`.

> makes it a powerful spatial data management and analysis tool. But the GUI
> is the 'face' that most people see and work with on a daily basis. Glynn's
> rewrite of the display architecture will have an important effect on the way
> the GUI connects with modules. But there is still an awful lot of wxPython
> code to enhance, maintain, and still to write. So if any of you would like
> to try your hand at Python and wxPython, we'd welcome another volunteer or
> two to the GUI development team.

definitely we need more people to contribute not only in wxGUI
development but especially for GRASS7 core changes...

Martin

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