[GRASS-dev] r.colors.out X r.colors -p

[Markus Neteler]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Martin Landa wrote:
>
>> currently r.colors has a new flag (-p) to print color table assigned
>> to the raster map. I have implemented this functionality because I
>> simply overlook r.colors.out in GRASS 7. We can
>>
>> a) remove -p flag from r.colors and continue with r.colors.out (and
>> backport it to GRASS 6)
>>
>> or
>>
>> b) improve -p flag in r.colors and drop r.colors.out.
>>
>> I would vote for option b), we have quite a lot modules in core
>> distribution in GRASS7. What do you think?
>
> I'd choose a). The two operations have almost nothing in common, so
> there's no reason for them to be in the same module.

Frmo a user's perspective, a situation like

r.statistics/  r.statistics2/ r.statistics3/ r.stats/

is just confusing...

Markus