[GRASS5] Re: Complete module list for GRASS-5?

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, Markus Neteler wrote:

> recently you (Eric) posted a list of descriptions generated from XML.
> Do you mind to send the script to me (I don't want to re-invent the wheel)
> or add it to CVS?

  Eric did indeed generate such a list and sent it to me. As I reorganized
it yesterday I noticed that it was not complete. For example, as I compiled
the section on remotely sensed data, there was nothing appropriate for
aerial photographs. I added i.ortho.photo but not the internally-called
modules.

  If the same script can be run on the complete source tree it would save me
(and others, of course!) a lot of time flipping through the man pages one by
one to make sure that they're all in th list.

  BTW, the list is in beta review now (only a couple of people looking at
the first draft), but I'll put it up on both the grasslist and grass5 lists
when it is complete (includes all modules) and the placement of modules
within categories has been reviewed.

  My reason for doing this is to design a menu system that will make
learning and using GRASS easier for my clients. The people using the systems
I'm developing are geologists and engineers and totally unfamiliar with GIS.
I need to give them both a turn-key system and one that they can use from
scratch with minimal training as they add new data and discover new analyses
they need/want.

  The new interface will be done either in ncurses or newt; I've not made
any decision. But, once that's done, I'll probably produce a gtk+ equivalent
for the mouse entrapped. :-)

Rich

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