[GRASS5] Re: GRASS 5.3 release

[Paul Kelly]

Hello Michael

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Michael Barton wrote:

> 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.

If as I understand it this means custom scripts etc. in existing installations
will not work due to the new syntax, IMHO I don't think this change should
be made so close to the release of 5.3 and should be left to 5.7.

Paul