[GRASS5] html docs from tcltkgrass + proposal

[Andreas Lange]

Hi Justin,

Justin Hickey wrote:
> 
> Hello all
> 
> Andreas Lange wrote:
> > I would not recommend to remove the .tcltkgrass file, as it will
> > remove all user configuration (fonts, window sizes, open windows/x
> > drivers). This is not the usual behaviour of any application i know.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> > If we do radical changes on the .tcltkgrass format/internals, we
> > should set up a new filename (e. g. .tcltkgrass5 ).
> 
> Unfortunately, I would advise against this. I would suggest that writing
> a conversion script is a better way to handle this. All it requires is a
> tcltkgrass version as the first line of .tcltkgrass and a small script
> to make any necessary changes. Then when the tcltkgrass module is
> compiled, it checks for a .tcltkgrass file, checks the version, then
> performs the proper substitutions to create an up to date file. At least
> this method seems to be used in other programs I've used.

OK, a conversion script would be even better. But at this time i can not
see why we should change the .tcltkgrass - format at all. Except from
the new directory for the html-files nothing changed until now.


> While I'm at it I will make one more proposal. Throughout the code and
> documentation, the .grassrc5 file is almost always referred to as the
> "gisrc file". Does anyone object to changing the name from .grassrc to
> .gisrc? Of course, this change will be for 5.1.
> 

The .grassrc file is from grass4.x, whilst the .grassrc5 is from grass5.
So changing from .grassrc5 to .grassrc would interfere with grass4.3. I
have a grass4.3 setup (including a partly working xgrass) installed. 
But changing to .gisrc would be ok, although i like to have the name of
the application in the name of the rc-file. But as always that is
nothing fundamental.

cu,

Andreas

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