[GRASS5] Re: GRASS 5.3 release

[Michael Barton]

I agreed to get the scripts g.parser compliant, but of course will 
welcome any help offered. A month back, I went through and updated as 
many 5.3 scripts as I could get to work to 5.7 and submitted them to 
Markus. This is about 90% of the work needed. They need to be tested by 
others too of course, but should work pretty much as is with 5.3.

The biggest change will be in scripts that switched from unnamed 
command-line arguments (e.g., script [argument 1$] [argument 2@] ... ) 
to the 'option=argument' format (e.g., script [option1=value1] 
[option2=value2]...). What needs to be done is 1) change the tcltk menu 
modules to properly use all new option=value arguments and 2) change 
the man pages to also indicate the proper command-line use. This is not 
an insignificant number of scripts, but it is not the majority either. 
There are also some scripts that don't seem to work in 5.7 and may not 
work in 5.3 either. We should probably either fix or deprecate them.

I was going to call the updated version of tcltkgrass 4.1 to indicate 
these changes. I doubt if I can get it done by the time you all want to 
release 5.3.0, and I DON'T want to hold up this release in any way. Can 
I do this to get into a 5.3.x or 5.4 release? How should I number 
tcltkgrass? Does it matter?

Michael Barton
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School of Human Origins, Cultures, & Societies
Arizona State University
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On May 7, 2004, at 2:27 AM, grass5-request at grass.itc.it wrote:

> there are alternatives like r.in.tiff
>
>> all scripts -> g.parser                          ?
>> missing man pages (Debian bug #229086, 242436)   no
>> Remove any remaining GD,GDBM mentions            ?
>> init.sh/set_data race              ???? not sure what this was about
>> NVIZ updates                                     done
>> add r.series, r.grow2, d.info                    **TODO**
>> add r.[in|out].mat, r.univar(2)                  **TODO**
>> OSX TclTk -> Aqua                                so close
>> TrueColor for core display modules               C done; man pages?
>> shared libs working on all but Cygwin            ?
>
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