[GRASS-dev] rename wxgrass / g.gui

[Hamish]

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]
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2007-August/032604.html

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?

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

+0 for the name. Sounds ok.

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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